Building self-modifying multi-agent and P2P networks using WSDL and SOAP

This paper explores using WSDL and SOAP as a medium for multi-agent communication, particularly focusing on agents that can incorporate new software capabilities at runtime and autonomously provide these new capabilities to the Internet as a Web service without human involvement. Such a system should serve as a good middleware for making distributed evolutionary networks that are also fully compatible with the existing Web service architecture. We demonstrate the potential of such self-modifying Web service-enabled agents by creating a small network of agents that can cooperatively work together to solve a decomposed workflow problem.