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Nathan Griffiths
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Kuo-Ming Chao
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Agent-Based
Service-Oriented Computing
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Editors
Dr. Nathan Griffiths
University of Warwick
Coventry
UK
Prof. Kuo-Ming Chao
Coventry University
Coventry
UK
ISBN 978-1-84996-040-3
e-ISBN 978-1-84996-041-0
DOI 10.1007/978-1-84996-041-0
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Preface
Service-oriented computing (SOC) has rapidly become an established approach for
supporting the construction and management of distributed applications. A range
of tools, techniques and standards have emerged to support the construction, publi-
cation, discovery, composition and management of services. Agent-based systems
are a natural complement to SOC and can provide the intelligence and reasoning
capabilities that are needed to effectively support and manage the resulting systems.
The integration of agents and SOC is an active research area, and the goal of
this book is to give an overview of current research and techniques, and to identify
the most likely future directions. This book is a collection of chapters that discuss
the main current areas of research, along with a chapter devoted to selected future
directions that we see as important. We also include a chapter that introduces the
basic notions of SOC, to keep the book accessible to a general reader.
We would like to express our gratitude to the authors who have contributed their
research, and to Rebecca Mowat, Beverley Ford and everyone at Springer who has
helped with the publication of this book.
Coventry, UK
September 2009
Nathan Griffiths
Kuo-Ming Chao
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