TY - GEN
T1 - SWEMAS
T2 - 6th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2003
AU - Lee, Jaeho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The Semantic Web aims to represent the data on the World Wide Web to have formal semantics that will enable autonomous agents to reason about the data and carry out more intelligent tasks on behalf of the user. Especially the OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine readability of Web contents than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. Autonomous agents utilize the formal semantics to autonomously interact with other agents. In this paper we present our approach toward a multi-agent framework to utilize the Semantic Web. The framework called SWEMAS has interfaces to the Semantic Web ontology service and a specialized inference service. The framework also has a distinguished component to transform between ontologies. These interfaces to the Semantic Web services are built on the FIPA-compliant JADE agent framework. In our framework JADE serves as a middleware to support agent management, agent communication, and agent interaction protocols. JADE also provides an environment for application agents to be developed and get plugged in to the framework. We lay out the architecture of our multi-agent framework to utilize the Semantic Web and the rationales for our design of the framework.
AB - The Semantic Web aims to represent the data on the World Wide Web to have formal semantics that will enable autonomous agents to reason about the data and carry out more intelligent tasks on behalf of the user. Especially the OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine readability of Web contents than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. Autonomous agents utilize the formal semantics to autonomously interact with other agents. In this paper we present our approach toward a multi-agent framework to utilize the Semantic Web. The framework called SWEMAS has interfaces to the Semantic Web ontology service and a specialized inference service. The framework also has a distinguished component to transform between ontologies. These interfaces to the Semantic Web services are built on the FIPA-compliant JADE agent framework. In our framework JADE serves as a middleware to support agent management, agent communication, and agent interaction protocols. JADE also provides an environment for application agents to be developed and get plugged in to the framework. We lay out the architecture of our multi-agent framework to utilize the Semantic Web and the rationales for our design of the framework.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0344823861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0344823861
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 122
EP - 132
BT - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A2 - Lee, Jaeho
A2 - Barley, Mike
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 7 November 2003 through 8 November 2003
ER -