"Intelligent, Strategic and Verifiable Agent-based Communities of Web Services: Theoretical Foundations and Automation"

Web服务因其作为服务计算的实现技术而备受赞誉。这种技术在企业对客户(B2C)和企业对企业(B2B)中的广泛发展和使用，最近有助于确定一种组织和部署Web服务的演变方式，方法是将具有类似功能的服务聚集在相同的“虚拟”空间中，称为Web服务社区(CWSS)。CWSS允许创造专业知识和合作与竞争的环境，为用户提供最好的服务。为了实现这一新兴概念的全部潜力，Web服务被认为通过代理配备了语义信息和丰富的交互、推理和决策能力，以便可以谈判商业合同和加入社区的好处。然而，尽管最近在具体、工程和保护CWSS方面采取了许多举措，但一些基本问题和问题仍然没有得到解决和解决，主要是因为缺乏严格的理论基础。为了使CWSS成为B2C、B2B和电子应用的首选技术，迫切需要为研究人员和工程师提供强大的理论基础，以支持和分析灵活高效的交互、决策、验证和安全，这些都是新兴应用的核心。该项目的第一个目标是将服务计算的最先进水平从简单的反应性实体和单独部署的水平提高到这样一个水平，即它们被赋予语义、高级推理和战略决策能力并部署在社区中。第二个目标是推动对CWSS的研究，从以即兴的方式设计Web服务和社区的水平，到建立理论基础的水平，以便使用正式的方法和技术进行合理的工程设计，即形式经济模型、博弈论、计算逻辑和模型检查。该项目的最终目标是通过促进加拿大服务业的发展，为加拿大的社会和经济发展做出贡献。

Web services are hailed for their role as implementation technology of service computing. The widespread development and use of this technology for Business-to-Customer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) have recently contributed in identifying an evolutionary way of organizing and deploying web services by gathering the ones having similar functionalities in the same "virtual" space, called Communities of Web Services (CWSs). CWSs permit to create pockets of expertise and settings of both cooperation and competition to provide the users with the best services. To achieve the full potential of this emerging concept, web services are perceived to be equipped, through agents, with semantic information and rich interaction, reasoning, and decision making capabilities so that business contracts and community joining benefits can be negotiated. However, despite recent and numerous initiatives around specifying, engineering, and securing CWSs, several fundamental issues and problems remain unresolved and yet to be addressed, mainly because of lack of rigorous theoretical foundations. To make CWSs the technology of choice for B2C, B2B and e-applications, there is an urgent need to provide researchers and engineers with strong theoretical foundations to support and analyze flexible and efficient interactions, decision making, verification, and security, which are core to the emerging applications. The first aim of this project is to raise the state of the art in service computing from a level where services are simply reactive entities and deployed individually, to a level where they are empowered with semantics and advanced reasoning and strategic decision making capabilities and deployed within communities. The second aim is to advance the research into CWSs from a level where web services and communities are designed in an impromptu way to a level where theoretical foundations are established allowing sound engineering using formal methods and techniques, namely formal economic models, game theory, computational logic, and model checking. The ultimate objective of this project is to contribute in the social and economic development of Canada by contributing in the growth of its service industry.