Abstract
Abstract The Semantic Web provides access to heterogeneous, distributed information, enabling software products to mediate between user needs and the information sources available. Agents are one of the most promising technologies for the development of Semantic Web software products. However, agent-based technologies will not become widespread until there are adequate infrastructures for the development of semantic multi-agent systems (MAS). Some challenges, such as turning software agents into practical abstractions for dealing with ontologies, taking advantage of the distributed nature of the Web to create distributed agents and making a seamless integration with existing Web tools, e.g. the browser, still need to be addressed. This paper describes the main features of the SemantiCore framework, an agent infrastructure to develop semantic MAS. A look at a benchmark Semantic Web application illustrates the SemantiCore potential as an infrastructure for the deployment of semantic agent applications.
Highlights
The ever-increasing importance of the Web in everyday life is driving the need for software capable of coping with open and dynamic environments [1]
The aim of this paper is to present SemantiCore, an agent infrastructure that integrates the richer semantics of the Semantic Web to the implementation of agent systems
We show that agents are suitable to develop Semantic Web applications
Summary
The ever-increasing importance of the Web in everyday life is driving the need for software capable of coping with open and dynamic environments [1]. The design of agent systems require [24]: suitable design abstractions to support shared knowledge exhibited by agent societies, i.e. knowledge that cannot directly be ascribed to individual agents [4, 25]; and, suitable infrastructures that semantically shape the agent environment to enable and promote the exploitation of this knowledge In this sense, the Semantic Web is a platform in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling. It is important to mention that this ontology can be public information or an agreed set of definitions and meanings of basic communicable concepts, i.e. information that was not develop for a given application It would be desirable for agent infrastructures to support the development knowledge-aware systems so that agents can collect Web content (shared knowledge) from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other agents.
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