Service Level Agreements for Semantic Web Agents
Nir Oren, Alun D. Preece, Timothy J. Norman · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) · 2005
We propose an RDF-based language called SWCL to represent contracts, with a focus on service level agree-ments. The language came about due to a requirement in our research concerning reliable service delivery in domains containing virtual organizations, and we de-scribe one such domain. Our language is built around a production rule system using RDF bindings and con-taining some contract-specic resources. A number of other approaches to contracting have been proposed, and we rst describe these, and then compare them to SWCL. Finally, we suggest a number of extensions to this work, as well as ideas regarding how contract-ing can form part of a framework for increasing agent reliability in an open environment.