Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group(AWSI WG)Workplan Presentation

Hiroki Suguri, Comtec

13-14 September 2005

Budapest FIPA meeting

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Outline

Problem Statement Objectives of the WG Competitive Analysis Deliverables Technology Milestones Dependencies Participants

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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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Objectives of the WG

Agent interoperation with 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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Competitive AnalysisArea 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

WSMO

Interaction IP WS-BPEL

WS-CDL

OWL-S

SWSL

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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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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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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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Deliverables (3/3)

AWSI Description Specification Registration and Discovery Specification Engagement Specification Communication Language Specification Messaging Specification Interaction Specification

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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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Milestones

September 2005 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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Dependencies

FIPA 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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Participants Submitters

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