OntoAgent: A platform for the declarative specification of agents.
Andreas Eberhart · 2002
This paper presents a detailed description of our OntoAgent framework. It allows a software agent to be specified entirely using standard mark-up languages from the Semantic Web community, namely RDF, RDF Schema, and RuleML. The basic agent components are identified and their implementation using relational databases and Java technology is described. The agents communicate via standard Internet protocols. Furthermore, we suggest action rules that allow agents to become active spontaneously, as well as a framework for interfacing the agents with intelligent applications that can perform learning algorithms or other complex tasks.