Integration of Web Services and Software Agents using WS2Jade

Xuan Thang Nguyen
Centre for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Swinburne University of Technology

Friday, 24th June 2005
0930 - 1100

Room 203 (2nd floor)
AGSE Building
John Street, Hawthorn

Abstract:

Web services have gained popularity today for enabling universal interoperability among applications. In many scenarios, allowing software agents to access and control Web services is important and hence the integration between these two platforms. In this talk I will outline technical aspects of an integration framework of Web services and Jade agent platform. The mismatch of description and communication between FIPA compliant agent platforms versus Web services are two key challenges that must be addressed. Our implementation, WS2JADE, is described and compared with WSDL2JADE - a previous implementation on the same topic, and WSIGS - a recent proposal of Web service and Agent integration architecture. At the end, the talk will present some demonstrations of the toolkit.

Biosketch:

Xuan Thang is currently a research student in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia). He graduated from University of Technology, Sydney in Oct 2003 with a Bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a Diploma of Engineering Practice. He worked for Nortel Networks in R&D department for one and a half year on Web application in wireless technology. Xuan Thang is also an active developer in open source community. He developed Omnet MPLS model, which has been incoporated in Omnet++ INET framework.