COOWS: ADAPTIVE BDI AGENTS MEET SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING

ABSTRACT Mainstream research in Web Services is currently looking at two main aspects, namely formally describing interactions among services, and finding and combining services. Much work made in the intelligent agents area is being applied to these issues. In this paper, we investigate the application of agent research to Web Services from a different perspective, that is, procedural learning. The final objective is to enable an adaptive system (an agent in our terminology) to discover or being fed with knowledge concerning how to solve a specific set of problems in a specific software or physical environment. Our work is a preliminary step into the issue, with the main objective of assessing how current Web Services technology can support a component, described in terms of beliefs, desires and intentions, dynamically adapting its behaviour to new environments. KEYWORDS Service-oriented computing, web services, intelligent agents, belief-desire-intention architecture. 1. INTRODUCTION