Dynamic interoperability of software agents with Semantic Web languages

Abstract

The flourishing idea of Semantic Web being realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructure has rehabilitated interest in semantic interoperability between various semantic languages. Semantic languages like OWL, WSML and FIPA SL formalize WWW into machine process able and understandable, by their ability to represent machine interpretable content on the Web. These semantic description languages differ in syntax and semantic representation, resulting in mismatches that hamper semantic information exchange and interoperability for cross service utilization among the resulting information systems. In this paper we propose techniques to facilitate translation among heterogeneous contents while preserving the semantics. We then propose the architecture to realize the system in a middleware that will enable dynamic semantic interoperability between FIPA compliant software agents and semantic web languages including OWL and WSML. We will also develop a prototype application through which a software agent will invoke and use a web service published in OWL or WSML and vice versa.