Autonomic Management of Web Services Based on Federated Multi-agent System

Web services, as a wonderful distributed computing technology, are used in many business systems, such as ERP and CRM. However, dynamical nature of Web services and changeful business requirements result in increasing complexities of management of Web services, especially in large-scale business system. In this paper, we present architecture of autonomic management for Web services base on federated multi-agent system. It uses task agent as a container of Web services to manage Web services and has an autonomic cooperation mechanism to share information and cooperate among task agents, manager agents and middle agents in agent federation to finish some computing tasks