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A Multiagent Approach for Configuring and Explaining Workflow of Semantic Web Services

A Multiagent Approach for Configuring and Explaining Workflow of Semantic Web Services

Vasco Furtado, Leonardo Ayres, Gustavo Fernandes
Copyright: © 2007 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1554-1045|EISSN: 1554-1053|ISSN: 1554-1045|EISBN13: 9781615203512|EISSN: 1554-1053|DOI: 10.4018/jitwe.2007100101
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Furtado, Vasco, et al. "A Multiagent Approach for Configuring and Explaining Workflow of Semantic Web Services." IJITWE vol.2, no.4 2007: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2007100101

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Furtado, V., Ayres, L., & Fernandes, G. (2007). A Multiagent Approach for Configuring and Explaining Workflow of Semantic Web Services. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 2(4), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2007100101

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Furtado, Vasco, Leonardo Ayres, and Gustavo Fernandes. "A Multiagent Approach for Configuring and Explaining Workflow of Semantic Web Services," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 2, no.4: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2007100101

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Abstract

In this article, we describe a multiagent application that configures Semantic Web services following a design problem solving method. For that, a propose-and-revise strategy was modeled and implemented in OWL-S. The other contribution of this method is the extension of OWL-S for recording the service execution flow followed by the agent. The trace of the agent’s reasoning is stored in node sets represented in a proof markup language, which make up a framework for explanations on the Web. The proposed approach is shown to be useful in the context of e-business where the workflow definition of services is automatically performed by the agents in order to configure a computer from a customer order.

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