Towards Semantic Web Agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink

This paper presents an overview on the role of agents in the Semantic Web, which was the topic of the AgentLink Technical Forum Group on ‘Semantic Web Agents’, aimed at fostering closer collaboration between the European communities working in these areas. The paper is structured in three main sections. In the first, we argue how agents are an essential component of the Semantic Web, then we provide a brief history, by no means comprehensive, of how the Semantic Web vision—that includes agents—has evolved over the past fifteen years. We then conclude, reporting on the topics presented and discussed during the Technical Forum.

origin event

 Special Issue “Revised Reports from Selected Technical Forum Groups at the 1st & 2nd AgentLink III Technical Forums”

 AL3-TF1

 AL3-TF2

journal or series

 The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER)

container publication

 Special Issue “Revised Reports from Selected Technical Forum Groups at the 1st & 2nd AgentLink III Technical Forums” (special issue, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney

companion publication

 The AgentLink III Technical Forums: Introduction to the Special Issue (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney

 Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón

 Agents in Bioinformatics (article in journal, 2005) — Michael Luck, Emanuela Merelli

 Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Michael I. Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Tom Holvoet

 Multiagent Resource Allocation (article in journal, 2005) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

 Programming Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Mehdi Dastani, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz

 Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

companion publication for

 Multiagent Resource Allocation (article in journal, 2005) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

 Agents in Bioinformatics (article in journal, 2005) — Michael Luck, Emanuela Merelli

 Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Michael I. Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Tom Holvoet

 Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón

 Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos

 Programming Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Mehdi Dastani, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz

 The AgentLink III Technical Forums: Introduction to the Special Issue (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney