Agent services matchmaking for cooperation

Abstract

To form agent cooperation in an open environment, such as the Internet, is extremely difficult, despite agent service is one of the main forces to drive the Web into a growing marketplace of services. In this paper, a method to combine agent services matchmaking and cooperation is proposed. For flexible and semantic matchmaking, multiple strategies are provided; and based on the results of matchmaking, a naive Bayesian model is given for agents to form cooperation. This approach, which considers matchmaking and cooperation formation as one process, brings a new angle for us to solve the connection problem for agents to work collaboratively in a dynamic and open environment, such as the World Wide Web.