Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008)

by Idoia Berges, Jesus Bermudez, Alfredo Goñi, Arantza Illarramendi

One relevant aspect in the development of the Semantic Web framework is the achievement of a real inter-agents communication capability at the semantic level. The agents should be able to communicate and understand each other using standard communication protocols freely, that is, without needing a laborious a priori preparation, before the communication takes place. For that setting we present in this paper a proposal that promotes to describe standard communication protocols using Semantic Web technology (specifically, OWL-DL and SWRL). Those protocols are constituted by communication acts. In our proposal those communication acts are described as terms that belong to a communication ontology, that we have developed, called CommOnt. The intended semantics associated to the communication acts in the ontology is expressed through social commitments that are formalized as fluents in the Event Calculus. In summary, by taking benefit of OWL-DL reasoners and rule engines our proposal allows to reason about protocols in such a way that the following relations can be discovered: equivalence, specialization, overlapping or disjunction between protocols used by different agents.

Keywords: agent communications, protocols, Semantic Web, Software agent, Software Agent

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/paper/41
Same as: http://revyu.com/things/eswc-2008-paper-semantic-web-protocols
Same as: http://semanticweb.org/id/Semantic_Web_technology_for_Agent_Communication_Protocols

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