Demo:

A Distributed Services based conference planner application using Software Agents, Grid Services and Web Services
Arshad Ali, M. Omair Shafiq, Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Fawad Nazir


Web is evolving towards machine readable for sharing knowledge among human as well as machines. Agents are able to work at run-time where each component can become commodity. Agents will be able to make decision at run to which resources and/or service to use for particular task. Interaction between grid and user must become an equal partnership. The computer should not just act as a dumb receptor of task descriptions, but should cooperate with the user to achieve their goal. These considerations give rise to the need of agent acting as an expert assistant or delegate with respect to some application, knowledgeable about both the application itself and the user, and capable of acting with the user in order to achieve the user’s goals.

We have been working to make the Software Agents integrate with Web Services. By integration we mean two way service discovery transformation, service description transformation and communication protocol transformation among software agents and web services.

In the demo at AAMAS 2005 we want to contribute to demonstrate the working of different distributed services of different technologies in a collaborative environment i.e. Software Agents, Grid Servers and Web Services.

It is an agent based personal assistant application in which software agents interact with grid services and web services to submit computation or data intensive jobs by acting as proxy to their owners (humans).