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complements XML-based Web Services, June 4, 2007
This review is from: Agent Technology For E-Commerce (Paperback)
Agents might be the complement to the much touted Web Services. The latter give a means of composing complex services out of simpler ones, where a service can span several independent machines or addresses on a computer network. Well if you take the discussion in this book, it does fit neatly into the ecosystem where you have all these Web Services being made available.
Because the structured XML nature of the service messages lends itself to programmatic analysis by agents, especially if they have some proactive ability or are autonomous. Here, there is still a need for an underlying ontology or rich descriptive language for what the XML fields mean. Web Service researchers are actively working on this problem.
The book lets you see how certain trends might or will converge in the near future.
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