On specifying an environment of software agents and Web services

Summary form only given. This paper presents an approach for specifying an environment of software agents and Web services. Users in collaboration with software agents compose Web services into high-level business processes denoted by composite services. The participation of Web services in a composite service is based on several selection criteria such as the execution cost of a Web service and the location of the resources on which a Web service is performed. Prior to that selection, the specification approach puts forwards three levels: intrinsic, behavior, and organizational/functional.