Abstract
Based on the plethora of proposals and standards for logic- and rulebased reasoning for the Semantic Web (SW), a key factor for SW agents is reasoning task interoperability. This paper reports on a framework for interoperable reasoning among agents in the SW that deploys third-party trusted reasoning services. This way, agents can exchange arguments, without conforming to a common rule or logic paradigm; via an external reasoning service, the receiving agent can grasp the semantics of the received rule set. The paper presents how a multi-agent system was extended with a third-party trusted defeasible reasoning service, which offers agents the ability of reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. In addition, a brokering trade scenario is presented that illustrates the usability of the approach.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Antoniou, G., Skylogiannis, T., Bikakis, A., Bassiliades, N.: Dr-brokering - a defeasible logic-based system for semantic brokering. In: Proc. IEEE International Conference on E-Technology, E-Commerce and E-Service, pp. 414–417. IEEE, Los Alamitos (2005)
Antoniou, G., van Harmelen, F.: A Semantic Web Primer. MIT Press, Cambridge (2004)
Bassiliades, N., Antoniou, G., Vlahavas, I.: A defeasible logic reasoner for the semantic web. IJSWIS 2(1), 1–41 (2006)
Benjamins, R., Wielinga, B., Wielemaker, J., Fensel, D.: An intelligent agent for brokering problem-solving knowledge. In: Mira, J. (ed.) IWANN 1999. LNCS, vol. 1607, pp. 693–705. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., Lassila, O.: The semantic web. Scientific American (May 2001)
Boley, H.: The ruleml family of web rule languages. In: Alferes, J.J., Bailey, J., May, W., Schwertel, U. (eds.) PPSWR 2006. LNCS, vol. 4187, pp. 1–17. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Genesereth, M., Fikes, R.: Knowledge interchange format version 3.0 reference manual. Technical report, Logic Group, Comp. Sc. Dept., Stanford Univ. (1992)
Hendler, J.: Agents and the semantic web. IEEE Intelligent Systems 2(16), 30–37 (2001)
Kifer, M.: Rule interchange format: The framework. In: Calvanese, D., Lausen, G. (eds.) RR 2008. LNCS, vol. 5341, pp. 1–11. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Macarthur, K.: Trust and reputation in multi-agent systems. In: Proc. AAMAS 2008, May 12-16 (2007)
Nute, D.: Defeasible reasoning. In: Proc. 20th International Conference on Systems Science, pp. 470–477. IEEE Press, Los Alamitos (1987)
Paschke, A., Boley, H., Kozlenkov, A., Craig, B.: Rule responder: Ruleml-based agents for distributed collaboration on the pragmatic web. In: Proc. 2nd International Conference on Pragmatic Web, pp. 17–28. ACM, New York (2007)
Skylogiannis, T., Antoniou, G., Bassiliades, N., Governatori, G., Bikakis, A.: Dr-negotiate - a system for automated agent negotiation with defeasible logic-based strategies. DKE 63(2), 362–380 (2007)
Wagner, G., Giurca, A., Lukichev, S.: R2ml: A general approach for marking up rules. In: Marchiori, M., Fages, F., Ohlbach, H. (eds.) Principles and Practices of Semantic Web Reasoning, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 05371 (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Kravari, K., Kontopoulos, E., Bassiliades, N. (2009). A Trusted Defeasible Reasoning Service for Brokering Agents in the Semantic Web. In: Papadopoulos, G.A., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing III. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03214-1_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03214-1_26
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-03213-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-03214-1
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)