Semantic Web and Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies: Current and Future Trends (Position Paper)
Viviana Mascardi, James Hendler, Laura Papaleo · Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies · 2012
One of the first discussions about a Web enriched with semantics and its re-lationshipswithartificialintelligence(andhence,withintelligentagents)datesbackto1998[3],butitwasonlytenyearsagothattheideaofaSemanticWebontopofwhichagent-basedcomputingwouldhaveallowedcomputerprogramstointeractwithnon-localweb-basedresources,becamefamiliartoawideaudienceofscientists[4,18].WhereasinthebeginningtheSemanticWebwasconceivedassomethingthatinevitablyrequiredsomeextraeffortfromthefinalusers,itbecamesoonclearthat the exploitation of semantic features should have been less intrusive aspossible,makingsemanticmarkupaby-productofnormalcomputeruse.Agents and ontologies are recognized as the right tools for managing infor-mationontheWebbothbyacademicresearchers[17],andbyexpertsfromtheindustry [27],andagent-basedapplicationshavebeensuccessfully deployedontop of the Semantic Web in many domains including multi-site software deve-lopment[40],healthcare[39],culturalheritage,educationandlearning