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Advanced agent discovery services

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Kalliopi Kravari,

Nick BassiliadesAuthors Info & Claims

WIMS '12: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

Article No.: 38, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2254129.2254177

Published: 13 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The Semantic Web aims at augmenting the WWW with meaning, assisting people and machines in comprehending Web content and better satisfying their requests. Intelligent agents are considered to be greatly favored by Semantic Web technologies, because of the interoperability the latter will achieve. As a result, a plethora of multi-agent systems is already in use. One of the main problems in these systems is the lack of sufficient discovery and interaction monitoring tools. This paper reports on the design and implementation of advanced agent discovery services. These services are distinguished in two main categories; namely advanced semantic directory and discovery services (yellow pages) and trust-based discovery services which support among others interaction monitoring tools. Their implementation, including the associated graphical interface, was integrated into the EMERALD framework, a knowledge-based framework for interoperating agents. Finally, a software trade use case scenario is presented, which better displays the potential of the proposed approach.

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Kravari KBassiliades NGovernatori G(2016)A policy-based B2C e-Contract management workflow methodology using semantic web agentsArtificial Intelligence and Law10.1007/s10506-016-9177-224:2(93-131)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2016
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-32689-9_15

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WIMS '12: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

June 2012

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ISBN:9781450309158

DOI:10.1145/2254129

Conference Chair:
Dumitru Dan Burdescu
University of Craiova, Romania
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Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
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Costin Bădică
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Kravari KBassiliades NGovernatori G(2016)A policy-based B2C e-Contract management workflow methodology using semantic web agentsArtificial Intelligence and Law10.1007/s10506-016-9177-224:2(93-131)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2016
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Kravari KBassiliades N(2012)HARMProceedings of the 6th international conference on Rules on the Web: research and applications10.1007/978-3-642-32689-9_15(193-207)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-32689-9_15

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