sButler: A Mediator between Organizations' Workflows and the Semantic Web
Cécile Åberg, Patrick Lambrix, Juha Takkinen, Nahid Shahmehri · 2005
The Semantic Web will enable business-to-business in new ways. In this context, organizations will need to incorporate the Semantic Web into their work routines. However, this should be done in a way that does not require major changes in the organization. To this aim we propose a model for integrating the usage of the Semantic Web into an organization's work routines. The central component of the model is an sButler, a software agent that mediates between the organization and the Semantic Web. Further, we describe an architecture for one of the important parts of the sButler, show its feasibility with an implemented prototype, and discuss a test using a travel scenario.