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Inter-organizational Interoperability through Integration of Multiagent, Web Service, and Semantic Web Technologies

2012; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-28563-9_4

1865-1356

Paul Karaenke, Michael Schuele, András Micsik, Alexander Kipp,

Business Process Modeling and Analysis

This paper presents a software architecture for inter-organizational multiagent systems. The architecture integrates Web service technology into multiagent systems to overcome the technical interoperability problem of current multiagent systems in the fast growing service-oriented environments. We integrate Semantic Web technology to make multiagent systems semantically interoperable. We address the problem of interoperability regarding interfaces, messaging protocols, data exchanged, and security whilst considering a dynamic e-business environment. The proposed architecture enables service virtualization, secure service access across organizational boundaries, service-to-agent communication, and OWL reasoning within agents.