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SweMas Toward a Practical Multi-agent Framework Utilizing the Semantic Web

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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2003)

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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.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Seoul, 90 Cheonnong-dong, Tongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-743, Korea

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    Jaeho Lee

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Lee, J. (2003). SweMas Toward a Practical Multi-agent Framework Utilizing the Semantic Web. In: Lee, J., Barley, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_11

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