Presentation

Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web

Tim Finin

April 5, 2005

6845687 bytes

Microsoft PowerPoint - Need a reader? Get one here

Tags: agent, ai, kif, kqml, web

The concept of an agent is ubiquitous in Computer Science. During the past decade, a "software agents" paradigm has emerged, which views agents as autonomous, cooperating processes that use expressive communication languages to exchange information and knowledge and to coordinate their activities. This has been seen as a way to capitalize on opportunities (and solve many problems) created by the Internet and the Web. Yet the technology has not yet left our laboratories. Was it just another AI dream? Or maybe part of the "irrational exuberance" of the dot-com era? We argue that the vision remains a good one and describe how it is being realized today using semantic web technologies.

The semantic web is defined as "an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." This talk will introduce the underlying concepts, describe current languages and tools, and show how the semantic web is being used to solve problems in distributed computing, multi-agent systems, and grid computing.

These slides were developed and used for a presentation at the Oakridge National Laboratory on April 05, 2005.

Counter: 2032 downloads

Access Control: Public

OWL Tweet