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In Service-Oriented MAS middle agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionality can be used to build up composite services. In order to take advantage of recent advances in the field of AI planning for this purpose, we propose exploiting organisational information of Service-Oriented MAS to heuristically filter out those services that are probably irrelevant to the planning process. We present a novel framework for service-class based filtering and show how it can be instantiated to a particular MAS domain based on role and interaction ontologies.
This work has been partially supported in part by the European Commission under grant FP6-IST-511632 (CASCOM), and by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, projects TIC2003-08763-C02-02 and TIN2006-14630-C03-02
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Fernández, A., Ossowski, S. (2007). Semantic Service Composition in Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems: A Filtering Approach. In: Huang, J., et al. Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering. SOCASE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72619-7_6
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