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Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments (1999)
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| Venue: | SIGMOD Record |
| Citations: | 164 - 21 self |
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@ARTICLE{Sycara99dynamicservice,
author = {Katia Sycara and Matthias Klusch and Seth Wido and Jianguo Lu},
title = {Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments},
journal = {SIGMOD Record},
year = {1999},
volume = {28},
pages = {47--53}
}
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Abstract
The amount of services and deployed software agents in the most famous offspring of the Internet, the World Wide Web, is exponentially increasing. In addition, the Internet is an open environment, where information sources, communication links and agents themselves may appear and disappear unpredictably.Thus, an effective, automated search and selection of relevant services or agents is essential for human users and agents as well. We distinguish three general agent categories in the Cyberspace, serviceproviders, servicerequester, and middle agents. Service providers provide some type of service, such as finding information, or performing some particular domain specific problem solving. Requester agents need provider agents to perform some service for them. Agents that help locate others are called middle agents [2]. Matchmaking is the process of finding an appropriate provider for a requester through a middl...
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open information environment dynamic service matchmaking middle agent service provider human user general agent category deployed software agent requester agent world wide web provider agent appropriate provider particular domain specific problem solving communication link open environment relevant service famous offspring information source
