Software Agents Mediated Interoperability among Heterogeneous Semantic Services
Naeem Khalid, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri · 2008
Bringing Interoperability among heterogeneous semantic information services developed for open environments is a great challenge. Software agents have been realized as pivotal technology to drive semantic Web and grid services ultimately leading to automation of e-Science, e-Health and e-Commerce applications. Ontologies play a vital role as source of semantic representation of Web services, grid services and agent services. Different ontology languages have been proposed for semantic representation of these technologies. OWL is W3C standard for description of services on web and grid while FIPA SL is used as semantic language in agents. Both semantic languages differ in terms, syntax and semantics. We proposed software agent driven system architecture i.e.middleware ontology service (MOS) which provide translation of ontologies between these two languages. At the end, we provide comparative study of MOS with previous developed system i.e. ontology gateway and describe its implementation and results.