Middleware between OWL and FIPA Ontologies in the Semantic Grid Environment.
Maruf Pasha, Sabih ur Rehman, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri · 2006
Abstract – Ontologies are an essential element of the semantic web and they can act as a foundation for semantic interoperability among the various distributed systems as to achieve the service-oriented architectures. Ontologies provide a shared and universal knowledge of a domain that can be exchanged between communities and applications OWL (Web Ontology Language) is currently the W3C standard for providing specifying the ontologies and explicit semantics to the web services whereas the FIPA Ontologies and FIPA Semantic Language is the core of agent platforms due to its high expressive power. The key objective of this paper is the development of a middleware for above-mentioned content languages in such a way that the agents can communicate with the web services in an efficient manner. The challenging domain where our work can be applied is the messages that can be exchanged between FIPA compliant Multi Agent systems and the web services, thus enabling the agents based applications to interact with the web services. Our goal for these initial mappings/translations is to show that how the existing standards of FIPA Semantic Language could be mapped into representations, which could be readily used in a Web Services, based environment.