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Software Agents Mediated Interoperability among Heterogeneous Semantic Services

… , 2008. WI-IAT'08. IEEE/WIC/ …, 2008

Bringing Interoperability among heterogeneous semantic information services developed for open environments is a great challenge. Software agents have been realized as pivotal technology to drive semantic web and grid services ultimately leading to automation of e-Science, e-Health and e-Commerce applications. Ontologies play a vital role as source of semantic representation of web services, grid services and agent services. Different ontology languages have been proposed for semantic representation of these technologies. OWL is W3C standard for description of services on web and grid while FIPA SL is used as semantic language in agents. Both semantic languages differ in terms, syntax and semantics. We proposed software agent driven system architecture i.e. middleware ontology service (MOS) which provide translation of ontologies between these two languages. At the end, we provide comparative study of MOS with previous developed system i.e. Ontology Gateway and describe its implementation and results.

Agent Based Semantic Interoperability between Agents and Semantic Web Languages

… Information Networking and …, 2008

The flourishing idea of Semantic Web is realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructure. The WWW 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 contents 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 agent based technique to facilitate translation among heterogeneous contents while preserving the semantics. We propose the architecture to realize the system in a middleware that enables agent based dynamic semantic interoperability between FIPA compliant software agents and semantic web languages including OWL and WSML. We have developed a prototype application through which a software agent communicate and use a web service published in OWL or WSML and vice versa.

Ontology agent for ensuring semantic interoperability among agents and semantic web

International Journal of …, 2011

The semantic languages like Ontology Web Language, Web Services Modeling Language and Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agent Semantic Language, differ in syntax and semantic representation, result in mismatches that required mapping and interoperability for cross service utilisation among these semantic languages. In this paper, we compiled our work that is a middleware technique to make possible translation among heterogeneous contents on the bases of similar objectives that FIPA Ontology Service Specification provides to agent community. The paper addresses and motivates the relevant topic of achieving semantic interoperability among software agents and semantic web through the development of agent based middleware architecture. Semantic description languages used in our architecture are FIPA SL, W3C's OWL and WSML, in order to dynamically obtain the semantic interoperability in a heterogeneous and distributed environment. The results are evaluated for ontology mappings with traditional parsing technique and SPARQL query based approach.

Dynamic interoperability of software agents with semantic web languages

High Capacity Optical …, 2007

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.

Semantic Web Services for Multi-Agent Systems Interoperability

Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Agent-based technologies are often used including existing web services. The outputs of some services are also frequently used as inputs for other services, including other MAS. However, while agent-based technologies can be used to provide services, these are not described using the same semantic web technologies web services use, which makes it difficult to discover, invoke and compose them with web services seamlessly. In this paper, we analyse different agent-based technologies and how these can be described using extensions to OWLS. Additionally, we propose an architecture that facilitates these services' usage, where services of any kind can be registered and executed (semi-)automatically.

Agent Technology Meets the Semantic Web: Interoperability and Communication Issues

Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2010

This overview paper is a survey of recent research on agent technologies and how this technology can serve the scopes of the Semantic Web project. In a short time, Web has become the dominant database for information retrieval. Due to the exponential growth of the Web and the information it provides, finding accurate information is becoming more and more difficult. In the near future, access to Web will be mediated by intelligent applications and software agents that will assist users in finding accurate information and complete transactions successfully. Concisely, the Semantic Web means ontologies and semantics, software agents means multi-agents systems (MASs) built in FIPA [11] and other agent platforms with their own standards, and Web services means XML. We will try to investigate the way these technologies can cooperate without changing their specifications.

Allsopp-Toward Semantic Interoperability.pdf

The Coalition Agents Experiment (CoAX) is an international collaboration carried out under the auspices of DARPA's Control of Agent-Based Systems (CoABS) programme. The overall aim of CoAX is to demonstrate how an agent-enabled infrastructure, based upon the CoABS Grid, can enhance interoperability between heterogeneous components, including actual military systems, in a realistic scenario. The scenario is based on a peace-enforcement operation in the year 2012 in 'Binni' (a mythical state in Africa) which requires a mix of Coalition forces to work together.

DAML Enabled Web Services and Agents in the Semantic Web

2002

Academic and industrial bodies are considering the issue of Web Services as being the next step forward. A number of efforts have been made and are evolving to define specifications and architectures for the spreading of this new breed of web applications. One such work revolves around the Semantic Web. Lead researches are trying to combine the semantic advantages that a Semantic Web can provide to Web Services. The research started with the now standardized RDF (Resource Description Framework) and continued with the creation of DAML+OIL (DARPA Agent Markup Language and Ontology Inference Layer) and its branches, particularly DAML-S (where S stands for Services) [1]. The Semantic Web’s point of view, being considered in this paper presents a rich environment where the advantages of incorporating semantics in searching for Web Services can be fully expressed. This paper aims to describe an environment called DASD (DAML Agents for Service Discovery) where Web Service requesters and providers can discover each other with the intermediary action of a Matchmaking service.