Re: Difference between Agents and (Semantic) Web Services

Jyotishman Pathak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Pardon me if this is a very naive question, but someone can please tell 
> me crisply the difference(s) between software agents and (semantic) Web 
> services? I have been trying to find out a comparison between them over 
> the Web and came across the following: 
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=873262, which unfortunately did 
> not suffice my query to its entirety.
> 

there is an Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group @ 
FIPA (http://www.fipa.org/subgroups/AWSI-WG.html) and the presentations 
at their site list some of the similarities/differences between agents 
and (semantic) web services, but I'm not sure this WG is still active

hth,

	Marin

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