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the industry momentum offers a huge chance to solve one of the basic problems of agent
societies: Communication by Web services promises to do away with the artificial system
boundaries currently inhibiting large-scale distributed autonomous agent systems. And finally,
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model-driven approaches (either MDA or MDSD) (Stahl & V?¶lter, 2005) seem to be highly
appropriate to serve as the glue between the evolving and varying technologies.
The.Web.of.Services
Web Services currently are the preferred integration technology for business software companies.
Web Services (Christensen, Curbera, Meredith, & Weerawarana, 2001; Gottschalk,
Graham, Kreger, & Snell, 2002) in theory offer a standard means to communicate between
disparate systems and applications with absolute disregard for programming languages,
computer hardware, and system-specific communication protocols. Based on XML (eXtensible
Mark-up Language) (Biskup & Marx G??mez, 2005), this new and exciting standard
promises a new way of defining interfaces, without sticking to implementation details and
basic technical questions.
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