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Dynamic Service Composition
(this project has ended)

Our work is concerned with the dynamic composition of services. We plan to investigate how an agent can choose from a range of services, offered by external providers, and compose them to satisfy its individual goals. While some attention will be paid to the automatic construction of workflows, most emphasis will be placed on issues surrounding coordination and negotiation between service providers and clients, which are assumed to be autonomous and self-interested entities.

Homepage: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ss2
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Themes: Agent Based Computing, Grid and Distributed Computing, Semantic Web, Trust and Provenance
Dates: 1st October 2004 to 1st May 2008

Funding

  • EPSRC
  • BAE Systems

Principal Investigators

Other Investigators

URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/299
RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/299

More information

Associated Publications

Number of items: 11.

Stein, S., Payne, T. R. and Jennings, N. R. (2009) Flexible Provisioning of Web Service Workflows. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 9 (1). 2:1-2:45.

Stein, S. (2008) Flexible Service Provisioning in Multi-Agent Systems. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Stein, S., Jennings, N. R. and Payne, T. (2008) Flexible Service Provisioning with Advance Agreements. In: Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-08), 12-16 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal. pp. 249-256.

Stein, S., Payne, T. R. and Jennings, N. R. (2008) Flexible QoS-Based Service Selection and Provisioning in Large-Scale Grids. In: UK e-Science 2008 All Hands Meeting (AHM), HPC Grids of Continental Scope, 8-11 September, Edinburgh.

Stein, S., Jennings, N. R. and Payne, T. R. (2007) Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows. In: 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS-07), May 14-18 2007, Hawaii, USA. pp. 523-525.

Stein, S., Jennings, N. R. and Payne, T. R. (2007) Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows. In: Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 22–26 July 2007, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 1452-1458.

Stein, S., Payne, T. R. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) An Effective Strategy for the Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows. In: The Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE 2007), May 14, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. pp. 16-30.

Stein, S., Payne, T. R. and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM07-001, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Stein, S., Jennings, N. R. and Payne, T. R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows. In: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), Aug 28th - Sept 1st, Riva del Garda, Italy. pp. 295-299.

Stein, S., Jennings, N. R. and Payne, T. R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (Extended Abstract). In: Fourth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 14-15th December, Lisbon, Portugal.

Stein, S., Payne, T. R. and Jennings, N. R. (2006) Flexible Provisioning of Semantic Web Service Workflows using a QoS Ontology. In: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 5th-9th November, 2006, Athens, GA.

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