APIS – Agent Platform for Integration of Services

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to create a platform for development and evaluation of task execution algorithms relying on services composition. Proposed solution is based on an agent paradigm where autonomous agents can cooperate and negotiate in order to execute specified tasks which are defined by input/output descriptions. Tasks are realized by the means of services exposed by different agents. In case when there is no a single service fulfilling the submitted task requirements, there is a need for an automated composition of services into one complex workflow. The platform provides ready to use communication blocks which can be easily used for algorithms development without consideration for complex conversation protocols handling. All the algorithms developed on the platform are service implementation independent and oriented on interagent communication. I. SERVICE COMPOSITION PROBLEM Position Papers of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems pp. 247-254