Artificial Intelligence
Agent theories, architectures, and languages: a survey
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Intelligent agent framework for order entry and management
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Software as a Service: An Integration Perspective
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
ACE agents: mass personalized software assistance
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
A methodology for agent oriented web service engineering
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
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In this paper we propose an application of software agents to provide Virtual Web Services. A Virtual Web Service VWS is a linked collection of several real and/or virtual Web Services, and public and private agents, accessed by the user in the same way as a single real Web Service. A Virtual Web Service allows unrestricted comparison, information merging, pipelining, etc., of data coming from different sources and in different forms. Web Services are accessed according to the standardized protocols and their individual APIs. Public agents are coded in Java and developed by trusted users. These agents are optimized for efficient execution. They are used as mass-usage wrappers, caching utilities, communicators, monitors, etc. Private agents are defined by the agent owners using a specialized, imperative, interpreted, XML-based language. Code of the private agents is optimized for safe execution and mobility. By linking different private and public agents accessing different Web Services, a user may develop individual Virtual Web Services, and thus personalize chosen Web Services to the maximum extend.