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Web Services from an Agent Perspective
March/April 2008 (vol. 23 no. 2)
pp. 12-14
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Terry R. Payne, "Web Services from an Agent Perspective," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 12-14, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIS.2008.37,
author = {Terry R. Payne},
title = {Web Services from an Agent Perspective},
journal ={IEEE Intelligent Systems},
volume = {23},
number = {2},
issn = {1541-1672},
year = {2008},
pages = {12-14},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2008.37},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton
The growth of automated services on the Web has facilitated the emergence of a new software development paradigm. This paradigm is based on the composition of disparate services to achieve large-scale, reusable solutions for diverse domains. Borrowing heavily from research in object-oriented software engineering and multiagent systems, the Web service paradigm supports the construction, publication, provision, integration, and utilization of course-grained, software services in open, heterogeneous environments. This article examines this Web service paradigm from an open multiagent systems perspective and contrasts the formally grounded, knowledge-centric view of agents with the pragmatic, declarative, bottom-up approach adopted by Web services.

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Index Terms:
agents, Web services, multiagent systems
Citation:
Terry R. Payne, "Web Services from an Agent Perspective," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 12-14, Mar./Apr. 2008, doi:10.1109/MIS.2008.37
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