Enhancing the Interoperability between Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Architectures through a Model-Driven Approach

Exposing Agents as Web Services in JADE

“…Part of the subsequent work on agents as web services, however, was also related to web-based MAS [29,38,39] and agent architectures [34,40]. Software engineering methodologies related to this topic were also being developed and studied [19,25,45]. In 2007, a survey on existing agent methodologies based on the agent-oriented paradigm was published [8] with the aim of evaluating in what extent existing agent-oriented methodologies were also oriented to the development of services.…”

Service-Oriented Integration of Component and Agent Models

“…An agent behaves also as a service aggregator (or market maker) in (Papazoglou et al, 2005). (Hahn et al, 2010) provides a model driven approach for the integration of agent and services. It shows the possibility of the transformation between SoaML and a defined platform independent (meta-) model of agents (PIM4AGENT).…”

“…This work has been previously started in (Hahn et al, 2006) where the authors studied the Believe Desire Intention (BDI) models of agents (Rao and Georgeff, 1995). It is extended in (Hahn et al, 2010) to integrate the organizational dimension. Excepting the absence of components, this work is quite similar to our approach with a main point of difference: SoaML is chosen to represent the SOA model where it contains the notion of agent for concretely representing a participant in an application specification.…”