Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing

1. Introduction
1.1 Distributed Systems
1.2 Software Agent
1.3 Service-Oriented Architecture
1.4 Modelling Methodologies
1.5 Supporting Development Platform
1.6 Agents and SOA Standards
1.7 Overview of Chapters
1.8 Conclusion
2. Service Advertisement and Discovery
2.1 Introduction to Service Advertisement and Discovery
2.2 Basic Technologies
2.3 Web service registry architectures
2.4 Data Structures
2.5 System Requirements
2.6 Advertisement and Discovery Services
2.7 Agents in Service Advertisement and Discovery
2.8 Challenges in Service Advertisement and Discovery
2.9 Summary
3. Multi-Agent Coordination for Service Composition
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Preliminaries
3.3 Related Work
3.4 Architecture of MQSC
3.5 Service Composition Generation
3.6 Service Composition Deployment and Execution
3.7 Case Study
3.8 Conclusion and Future Work
4. Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Orchestration and Choreography
4.3 Workflow and Web Services
4.4 The Role of Agents in Service-Based Business Processes
4.5 Dynamic Workflows
4.6 Summary and Outlook
5. Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Web Services and SOA
5.3 Semantic Web Services
5.4 Semantic Techniques for Automating SOA
5.5 Conclusions and Outlook
6. Dependability in Service-Oriented Computing
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Service-Oriented Architecture
6.3 Models
6.4 Dependability Enhancement in a Service-Oriented Architecture
6.5 Dependability Evaluation
6.6 Case Studies
6.7 Conclusions
7. Consensus Issues for Service Advertisement and Selection
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Existing Solutions for Web Service Selection
7.3 The Proposed QoS-aware Services Selection Model
7.4 Two Numerical Cases
7.5 Discussion
7.6 Conclusion
8. Trust and Reputation
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Trust and Reputation
8.3 Agents and Service-Oriented Computing
8.4 Trust Classes and Ontologies
8.5 Summary
9. QoS-Aware Service Selection
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Service Selection Procedure
9.3 Case Study - Selection of Switching Service
9.4 Performance Evaluation
9.5 The Selection of Switching Services
9.6 Summary
10. Future Directions
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Trust and Reputation
10.3 Contract-based Systems
10.4 Service Accountability