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Web services coordination has become a central topic for further development of Internet-based distributed computing. One approach to this coordination task is supported by generative communication, and more specifically by some implementations of the Linda model as JavaSpaces. However, when applying these coordination strategies to real projects, some drawbacks appear. One of the main limitations is the lack of transactional queries. In this paper we deal with this problem extending the matching mechanism of the Linda model. Then, a variant of the well-known RETE algorithm can be devised in order to implement our extended Linda model efficiently. This also opens new research lines in which Artificial Intelligence techniques (as advanced blackboard architectures) could be applied to the field of web services coordination.
Partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology through projects TIC2002-01626, ACPI02-06 and TIC2003-09365-C02-01.
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Mata, E.J., Álvarez, P., Bañares, J.A., Rubio, J. (2004). Towards an Efficient Rule-Based Coordination of Web Services. In: Lemaître, C., Reyes, C.A., González, J.A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2004. IBERAMIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30498-2_8
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