10021 Abstracts Collection -- Service-Oriented Architecture and (Multi-)Agent Systems Technology

From 10.01. to 15.01.2010, Dagstuhl Seminar 10021 ``Service-Oriented Architecture and (Multi-)Agent Systems Technology \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available

Enterprise Java Beans, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Group Communication

Today's Middleware is facing increasing pressures to operate in more open, loosely coupled and complex environments. E-business systems require seamless transactions between multiple enterprises and software components are becoming more opaque in an effort to hide their complexity. In parallel, interactions between components are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This paper describes: - The integration of a well known standards compliant agent platform with a transactional J2EE application server to create a hybrid middleware able to make use of high level agent communication and other features. - An solution for Group Communication (GC) (a known Distributed Systems problem) using the hybrid middleware. - The extension of GC to illustrate how new challenges in distributed applications might be dealt with by a convergence of Distributed Systems theory, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Middleware solutions. The purpose of the paper is not to eulogise any particular technology but to highlight the relevance of research in the areas of Distributed systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Middleware and illustrate how they might co-evolve

Challenges in Large-Scale Open Agent Mediated Economies

Technology developments such as Web Services, GRID Computing and peer-to-peer toolkits are rapidly changing the way systems deployed in public networks interact. Large-scale usage of these technologies would very likely lead to environments which have many of the features commonly considered in Agent mediated e-commerce research: large-scale, dynamic populations of automated trading systems. This paper discusses the possibility of developing a large-scale open, agent based ``economy'' to act as a challenging test environment for electronic commerce solutions based on agent technology. Such an environment would allow researchers and developers to better understand the properties and characteristics of their systems whilst stopping short of deploying them in a real-economic environment. Although we describe some preliminary work in the context of the Agentcities initiative we intend this paper primarily as fuel for discussion

FORGE: An eLearning Framework for Remote Laboratory Experimentation on FIRE Testbed Infrastructure

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) initiative provides educators and learners in higher education with access to world-class FIRE testbed infrastructure. FORGE supports experimentally driven research in an eLearning environment by complementing traditional classroom and online courses with interactive remote laboratory experiments. The project has achieved its objectives by defining and implementing a framework called FORGEBox. This framework offers the methodology, environment, tools and resources to support the creation of HTML-based online educational material capable accessing virtualized and physical FIRE testbed infrastruc- ture easily. FORGEBox also captures valuable quantitative and qualitative learning analytic information using questionnaires and Learning Analytics that can help optimise and support student learning. To date, FORGE has produced courses covering a wide range of networking and communication domains. These are freely available from FORGEBox.eu and have resulted in over 24,000 experiments undertaken by more than 1,800 students across 10 countries worldwide. This work has shown that the use of remote high- performance testbed facilities for hands-on remote experimentation can have a valuable impact on the learning experience for both educators and learners. Additionally, certain challenges in developing FIRE-based courseware have been identified, which has led to a set of recommendations in order to support the use of FIRE facilities for teaching and learning purposes

E-banking Services for Automated Agent-based Trading

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Controllo e gestione di reti di telecomunicazione mediante l'uso di tecniche distribuite

Dottorato di ricerca in ingegneria elettronica ed informatica. 12. ciclo. A.a. 1996-1999. Relatore Giorgio CorazzaConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7 , Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal