Web Services Promise an Industrial Standard
Agent standards have been industrially irelevant.
No obvious need for text-based ACLs
Agents open-ended: send and receive any message
Ontology technologies proposed too complex.
No industrial application.
Web services offer descriptions of
acceptable input and output messages.
Industrial service directories: UDDI with
distributed taxonomies.
Standards (BPEL4WS, ebXML)
for composing and integrating services.
Agents were old AI.
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