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The integration of web services and intelligent agents is promising for automated service discovery, negotiation, and cooperation. But due to the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of web services and agents, it is challenging to guide the behaviors of underlying agents to meet the high-level business (changeful) requirements. Traditional Policy-driven methods (Ponder, Rei, KAoS, etc) are not adaptable to direct the discovery, negotiation and cooperation of dynamic agents who may join in or leave out of a specific community or organization (virtual organization) at run time. The purpose of this paper is to model an ontology-based, policy-driven control framework that is suitable to supervise the dynamic agents according to high-level policies. On the basis of federated multi-agents infrastructure and ontologies of policies, domain concepts, and agent federations, a model of role-based policy specification framework is presented in this paper.
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Liao, B., Gao, J., Hu, J., Chen, J. (2004). Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling of Policy-Driven Control Framework: Oriented to Multi-agent System for Web Services Management. In: Chi, CH., Lam, KY. (eds) Content Computing. AWCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3309. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30483-8_42
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