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Agentspace as a Middleware for Service Integration

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World II (ESAW 2001)

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Agentspace is an emerging environment resulting from process automation in the Internet and the Web. It is supposed that autonomous software (mobile) agents provide the automation. The agents realize goals delegated to them by their human masters. Interoperability is crucial to assure meaningful interaction, communication and cooperation between heterogeneous agents and heterogeneous services. In order to realize the goals, the agents must create, manage and reconfigure complex workflows. Usually, a workflow integrates a number of heterogeneous services. Our research aims at extracting a minimum that is necessary and sufficient for providing transparency between users and services, i.e. for joining applications as services to agentspace on the one hand and for using and integrating them by heterogeneous agents (on behalf of their users) on the other hand. For this very purpose we introduce a new concept of agent architecture as well as the new agent mobility form called soul migration.

The work was done within the framework of KBN project No. 7 T11C 040 20. The authors are grateful to Krzysztof Cetnarowicz, Leszek Rozwadowski, Dariusz Mikulowski, Krzysztof Miodek, Jaroslaw Kozlak, and Jacek Gajc for their contribution in uncountable many discussions about the concept of agentspace.

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Science, al. Ordona 21, PL-01-237, Warsaw, Poland

    Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz & Tomasz Nowak

  2. Institute of Informatics, University of Podlasie, al. Sienkiewicza 51, PL-08-110, Siedlce, Poland

    Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz & Tomasz Nowak

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  1. Facoltà di Ingegneria della Romagna, Sede di Cesena, Università di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, Via Rasi e Spinelli 176, 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  2. Software Agents and New Media Group, Austrian Research Institute for Artifiical Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  3. Technische Universität Berlin, Fachbereich 13 - Informatik- FR 6-10 Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

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Ambroszkiewicz, S., Nowak, T. (2001). Agentspace as a Middleware for Service Integration. In: Omicini, A., Petta, P., Tolksdorf, R. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World II. ESAW 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45584-1_10

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