Re: A Question about Agent-based Service Discovery/Selection

• From: Austin Tate <a.tate@ed.ac.uk>
• Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:31:44 +0000
• To: Gregory Huczynski <greg@dcs.gla.ac.uk>, public-sws-ig@w3.org
• Cc: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>, Rama Akkiraju <akkiraju@us.ibm.com>
• Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20040306103104.04a83ba0@mail.inf.ed.ac.uk:993>

At 05:39 PM 05/03/2004 +0000, Gregory Huczynski wrote:
>With my initial question, I was essentially trying to ascertain that, 
>regardless of the semantic matching/reasoning that may occur later in the 
>discovery process, we would always need to start by constraining on the 
>communications interface if the discovered service were to be invoked 
>autonomously by a software agent (i.e. without direct involvement of the 
>programmer).


well.. yes and no... it could be the case that once you find a service you 
want, You find ways to bridge across to that service even if its one you 
cannot call directly. 

Received on Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:34:14 UTC