1. Hiroki Suguri, Comtec 13-14 September 2005 Budapest FIPA meeting
Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group (AWSI WG) Workplan Presentation
Hiroki Suguri, Comtec
13-14 September 2005
Budapest FIPA meeting

2. Outline Problem Statement Objectives of the WG Competitive Analysis
Deliverables
Technology
Milestones
Dependencies
Participants
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3. Problem Statement Agents lack interoperability with Web Services
Industry trend is WS, not agents
Both have strength and weakness
Expectation is high for agents
Semantic Web is the key
Core issues
Service registration
Service discovery
Service invocation/communication
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4. Objectives of the WG Agent interoperation with WS Value addition to WS
Locate, negotiate and interact bi-directionally
Value addition to WS
Dialogues, semantics, interaction protocols
FIPA backward compatibility
“As much as possible”
Non-interference with WS standards
Keep existing WS specs and implementations
Utilize Semantic Web
RDF, OWL
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5. Competitive Analysis Area FIPA Web Services Semantic Web
Service Description
Agent Description
WSDL
WSDL-S
OWL-S
WSMO
Registration
DF/AMS
UDDI
Communication
ACL
SOAP
Semantic Language SL
OWL
Interaction IP
WS-BPEL
WS-CDL
SWSL
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6. WS-* Technologies Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI)
WS-Addressing
WS-AtomicTransaction
WS-BusinessActivity
WS-Coordination
WS-Discovery
WS-Eventing
WS-Federation
WS-Management
WS-MetadataExchange
WS-Policy
WS-ReliableMessaging
WS-Security
WS-Trust
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7. Deliverables (1/3) Requirements Statement
Analysis of domain issues & use cases
Analysis of reference specifications
Analysis of existing AWSI related implementations
Detailed statement of requirements
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8. Deliverables (2/3) Specification Overview
Outline of full specification contents
High-level description of architectural features
Usage models
Relationship to other specifications
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9. Deliverables (3/3) AWSI Description Specification
Registration and Discovery Specification
Engagement Specification
Communication Language Specification
Messaging Specification
Interaction Specification
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10. Technology AgenteWeb Gateway (NIIT/Comtec)
OWL-P (North Carolina State University)
JBees (University of Otago)
WS2JADE (Swinburne University)
ACLs for WS (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
JADE WSIG (Whitestein)
Web Service Agent Framework (IBM)
SWSL+SWSO, OWL-S, WSMO
Open Cybele Agent Platform (Intelligent Automation)
And more…
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11. Milestones September 2005 November 2005 December 2005 March 2006
Establishment of WG
November 2005
Requirements Statement
December 2005
Approval of Plan of Work
March 2006
Alpha version of standards
May 2006
Reference implementation of Alpha version
June 2006
Beta version of standards
August 2006
Reference implementation of Beta version
September 2006
Release of standards
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12. Dependencies FIPA W3C OASIS Agent Management Specification (SC00023K)
Agent Message Transport Service Specification (SC00067F)
Interaction Protocols Specifications (SC00026—SC00030, XC00031, XC00032, SC00033—SC00036) and FIPA Communicative Acts Specifications (SC00037)
W3C
Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL 1.1 and 2.0)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP 1.2)
OASIS
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI 3.0.2)
Business process execution language for Web Services specification (BPEL4WS)
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13. Participants Submitters Supporters
Ashok U. Mallya, North Carolina State University, USA
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
H. Farooq Ahmad, Comtec, Japan/NIIT, Pakistan
Hiroki Suguri, Comtec, Japan
M. Omair Shafiq NIIT, Pakistan/DERI
Margaret Lyell, Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA
Xuan Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Supporters
Alois Reitbauer, Profactor Produktionsforschungs GmbH, Austria
Donald Steiner, Quantum Leap, USA
Esteban Leon-Soto, DFKI, Germany
Maryam Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
Michael Maximilien, IBM Research Labs, USA
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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