- From: Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz <sambrosz@ipipan.waw.pl>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:03:29 +0200 (CEST)
- To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu
- Cc: www-ws@w3.org
Michael, > But, in any case, I don't think that what you want to do requires a new > architecture for Web services (as somebody said in a followup email). > > Instead, there can be another service which takes user goals as input > (something like "I want to buy a book of J.R.R. Tolkien") and it comes up > with a plan that includes a few steps one of which is contacting the book > service and the other filling out the order. > > Talking to this planning service seems to account for your conversation > phase. > > > --michael There are several problems if you want to have such kind of services. The first one is: How to find out "a planning service" in a heterogeneous and distributed environment? The second one (actually related to the first one) is: How to specify the type of "this planning service"? In some sense the agent (in my approach) provides a specific service at a higher level. -- Stanislaw
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