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Agent-based Service Composition in Multi-party Collaboration Environments  

Han, Sang-Woo (School of Information and Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Kim, Jong-Won (School of Information and Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.45, no.5, 2008 , pp. 74-84 More about this Journal
Abstract
To support advanced collaboration among knowledge workers distributed geographically, there have been extensive researches under the scope of ubiquitous computing environments. Especially, to cope with several known problems in traditional room-based collaboration environments such as uncomfortable sharing of visuals and documents and difficult operation of collaboration tools, several conceptual frameworks are designed and prototyped. Focusing on practical and interactive collaboration with remote nodes, in this paper, we conceptually design an agent-based service composition model for multi-party collaboration environments. The proposed model is designed to automatically discover and combine services to achieve given tasks in a collaboration environment by using high-level user commands (without the knowledge of internal architecture). Based on the service composition model, we develop a multi-agent-based management toolkit for multi-party collaboration environments. It provides easy-to-use GUI to operate various services in an environment and perform service composition algorithm to discover appropriate services and combine them. To explore the possibility of the toolkit we implement collaboration services to support video conference by using the toolkit.
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다자간 협업 시스템;에이전트 기반 서비스 합성;서비스 지향 컴퓨팅;멀티 에이전트 시스템;미들웨어;
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