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Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically discovered and invoked. Our research objective is to propose new paradigms for interactions among semantic web services and software agents for problem solving. Agents are autonomous entities capable of acting on behalf of their user while Semantic Web services offer a new potential of automation in e-Work and e-Commerce, where fully open and flexible cooperation can be achieved on-the-fly. We believe that real goal of semantic web can only be realized if the semantic content associated with it can be read and interpreted. Since agent infrastructure has well-established reasoning, decision making and interaction mechanisms, it can contribute exceptionally in this regard. In this paper, we discuss the issue of negotiation between agents and semantic web services and propose architecture that enables negotiation between these heterogeneous entities.
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Parvez Khan Sana Ismaeel, S., Ahmad, H.F., Suguri, H., Elahi, M.A.A. (2007). Enabling Negotiation Between Agents and Semantic Web Services. In: Wegrzyn-Wolska, K.M., Szczepaniak, P.S. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72575-6_46
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