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Agent-based semantic web services

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Nicholas Gibbins,

Stephen Harris,

Nigel ShadboltAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '03: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 710 - 717

https://doi.org/10.1145/775152.775251

Published: 20 May 2003 Publication History

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The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery. At present, these service descriptions are semantically impoverished, being concerned with describing the functional signature of the services rather than characterising their meaning. In the Semantic Web community, the DAML Services effort attempts to rectify this by providing a more expressive way of describing Web services using ontologies. However, this approach does not separate the domain-neutral communicative intent of a message (considered in terms of speech acts) from its domain-specific content, unlike similar developments from the multi-agent systems community.In this paper, we describe our experiences of designing and building an ontologically motivated Web Services system for situational awareness and information triage in a simulated humanitarian aid scenario. In particular, we discuss the merits of using techniques from the multi-agent systems community for separating the intentional force of messages from their content, and the implementation of these techniques within the DAML Services model.

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Agent-based semantic web services
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems

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WWW '03: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web

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DOI:10.1145/775152

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