Singh / Huhns Service-Oriented Computing

Semantics, Processes, Agents
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-09149-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 588 Seiten, E-Book

This comprehensive text explains the principles and practiceof Web services and relates all concepts to practical examples andemerging standards. Its discussions include:
* Ontologies
* Semantic web technologies
* Peer-to-peer service discovery
* Service selection
* Web structure and link analysis
* Distributed transactions
* Process modelling
* Consistency management.
The application of these technologies is clearlyexplained within the context of planning, negotiation,contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies.The presentation of the intellectual underpinnings of Webservices draws from several key disciplines such as databases,distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multi-agentsystems for techniques and formalisms. Ideas from thesedisciplines are united in the context of Web services andservice-based applications.
Featuring an accompanying website and teacher's manualthat includes a complete set of transparencies for lectures, copiesof open-source software for exercises and working implementations,and resources to conduct course projects, this book makes anexcellent graduate textbook. It will also prove an invaluablereference and training tool for practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Munindar P.

Huhns, Michael N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors.
Preface.
Note to the Reader.
Acknowledgments.
Figures.
Tables.
Listings.
I Basics.
1. Computing with Services.
2. Basic Standards for Web Services.
3. Programming Web Services.
4. Enterprise Architectures.
5. Principles of Service-Oriented Computing.
II Description.
6. Modeling and Representation.
7. Resource Description Framework.
8. Web Ontology Language.
9. Ontology Management.
III Engagement.
10. Execution Models.
11. Transaction Concepts.
12. Coordination Frameworks for Web Services.
13. Process Specifications.
14. Formal Specification and Enactment.
IV Collaboration.
15. Agents.
16. Multiagent Systems.
17. Organizations.
18. Communication.
V Solutions.
19. Semantic Service Solutions.
20. Social Service Selection.
21. Economic Service Selection.
VI Engineering.
22. Building SOC Applications.
23. Service Management.
24. Security.
VII Directions.
25. Challenge and Extensions.
VIII Appendices.
Appendix A: XML and XML Schema.
Appendix B: URI, URN, URL and UUID.
Appendix C: XML Namespace Abbreviations.
Glossary.
About the Authors.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Munindar P. Singh is a Professor of computer Science atNorth Carolina State University From 1989 through 1995, he was withthe Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (betterknown as MCC). Melinda's research interests include multiagentsystems and Web services. He focuses on applications in e-commerceand personal technologies. Munindar's 1994 book multiagent Systems,was published by Springer-Verlag. He coedited Readings in Agents,which was published by Morgan Kaufman in 1988. He has coeditedseveral other books and authored several technical articles.Munindar's research has been recognized with awards and sponsorshipfrom the National Science Foundation, DARPA, IBM, Cisco Systems,and Ericsson.
Munindar was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing from1990 to 2002 and continues to serve on its editorial board. He is amember of the editorial boards of the Journal of Autonomous Agentsand Multiagent Systems and the Journal of Web Semantics. He serveson the steering committee for the IEEE Transactions on MobileComputing.
Munindar received a B.Tech. in computer science and engineeringfrom the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1986. Heobtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas atAustin in 1993.
Michael N. Huhns is the NCR Professor of Computer Scienceand Engineering at the University of South Carolina, where he alsodirects the Center for information Technology. Previously he was aSenior Member of the Research Division at the Microelectronics andComputer Technology Corporation. Prior to joining MCC in 1985, hewas an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineeringat the University of South Carolina, where he also directed theCenter for Machine Intelligence.
Mike is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau, Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ACM,IEEE, and AAAI. He is the author of over 180 technical papers inmachine intelligence and an editor of the books DistributedArtificial Intelligence, Volumes I and II, and, with Munindar,Readings in Agents. His research interest are in the areas ofmultiagent systems, enterprise modeling and integration, andsoftware engineering. From 1997 to 2003, he wrote a column Agentson the Web for IEEE Internet Computing.
Mike was an associate editor for IEEE Expert and the ACMTransactions on Information Systems. he is an associate editor forthe Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He is onthe Editorial Boards of the International Journal on Intelligentand Cooperative Information Systems, the Journal of IntelligentManufacturing, and IEEE Internet Computing. He was an advisor forthe First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, 1995, andhas been on the advisory boards for the International Workshops onDistributed Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the boardfor the International Foundation for Multiagent Systems and theInternational Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems.
Mike received the BSEE degree in 1969 from the University ofMichigan Ann Arbor, and the MS and PhD degrees in electricalengineering in 1971 and 1975, respectively, from the University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles.