A federated multi-agent system: Autonomic control of web services

Presently, resource sharing and integration within or cross enterprises (organizations) based on web services, semantic web and agents, are developing rapidly. However, different level of requirements of enterprise applications, and dynamic nature of web services and application requirements, result in increasing complexities of management of web services and related agents. This paper proposes a federated multi-agent system for autonomic web services control. The main point of this paper is to propose an approach based on hierarchical architecture-oriented agent federations to control the internal cooperation and external coordination and transaction of web services. In addition, an agent infrastructured to realize this system was developed and a simulated test was conducted successfully.