Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing

1. Introduction1.1 Distributed Systems1.2 Software Agent1.3 Service-Oriented Architecture1.4 Modelling Methodologies1.5 Supporting Development Platform1.6 Agents and SOA Standards1.7 Overview of Chapters1.8 Conclusion2. Service Advertisement and Discovery2.1 Introduction to Service Advertisement and Discovery2.2 Basic Technologies2.3 Web service registry architectures2.4 Data Structures2.5 System Requirements2.6 Advertisement and Discovery Services2.7 Agents in Service Advertisement and Discovery2.8 Challenges in Service Advertisement and Discovery2.9 Summary3. Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition3.1 Introduction3.2 Preliminaries3.3 Related Work3.4 Architecture of MQSC3.5 Service Composition Generation3.6 Service Composition Deployment and Execution3.7 Case Study3.8 Conclusion and Future Work4. Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments4.1 Introduction4.2 Orchestration and Choreography4.3 Workflow and Web Services4.4 The Role of Agents in Service-Based Business Processes4.5 Dynamic Workflows4.6 Summary and Outlook5. Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures5.1 Introduction5.2 Web Services and SOA5.3 Semantic Web Services5.4 Semantic Techniques for Automating SOA5.5 Conclusions and Outlook6. Dependability in Service-Oriented Computing6.1 Introduction6.2 Service-Oriented Architecture6.3 Models6.4 Dependability Enhancement in a Service-Oriented Architecture6.5 Dependability Evaluation6.6 Case Studies6.7 Conclusions7. Consensus Issues for Service Advertisement and Selection7.1 Introduction7.2 Existing Solutions for Web Service Selection7.3 The Proposed QoS-aware Services Selection Model7.4 Two Numerical Cases7.5 Discussion7.6 Conclusion8. Trust and Reputation8.1 Introduction8.2 Trust and Reputation8.3 Agents and Service-Oriented Computing8.4 Trust Classes and Ontologies8.5 Summary9. QoS-Aware Service Selection9.1 Introduction9.2 Service Selection Procedure9.3 Case Study - Selection of Switching Service9.4 Performance Evaluation9.5 The Selection of Switching Services9.6 Summary10. Future Directions10.1 Introduction10.2 Trust and Reputation10.3 Contract-based Systems10.4 Service Accountability