@InProceedings{buhler02a,
  author = 	 {Paul A. Buhler and Jos\'{e} M. Vidal},
  title = 	 {Toward the Synthesis of Web Services and Agent Behaviors},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Systems},
  year =	 2002,
  pages = 	 {25--29},
  abstract = 	 {Today s software systems are becoming more
                  net-centric, distributed, and
                  heterogeneous. Hardware, software and networking
                  technology will combine in a milieu in which they
                  become ubiquitous and inseparable. The acceleration
                  of technology and time-to-market pressures make it
                  increasingly difficult to produce software. In order
                  to achieve the promise of the information age,
                  software developers will require new abstractions
                  that will allow them to manage the overwhelming
                  complexity of this digital landscape. This short
                  position paper describes a novel technique that will
                  imbue agent software with dynamically configured
                  capabilities. These capabilities, described with
                  DAML-S, can represent atomic or orchestrated Web
                  Services. The DAML-S specification will be
                  transformed into an executable program written in a
                  composition language named Piccola. When executed,
                  the composite service will be available as a
                  semantically described behavior within a FIPA
                  compliant agent. The proposed architecture is
                  designed for scalability, from mobile PDA devices
                  with wireless connectivity to resource-rich server class systems.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/papers/buhler02a.pdf},
  comment = 	 {24\% acceptance rate.},
  googleid = 	 {Fler4BbZZigJ:scholar.google.com/},
  keywords = 	 {sweb multiagent},
  cluster = 	 {2911252901423437590}
}