A t a colloquium I attended recently, a speaker described a "science fiction" vision comprising agents running around the Web performing complex actions for their users. The speaker argued that we are far from the day this vision would become a reality because we don't have the infrastructure to make it happen. Although I agree with his assessment about infrastructure, his claim that we are "far from the day" is too pessimistic. A crucial component of this infrastructure, a standardized Web ontology language, is emerging. This article offers a few pointers to this emerging area and shows how the ontology languages of the Semantic Web can lead directly to more powerful agent-based approaches-that is, to the realization of my colleague's "science fiction" vision.
In REF , the author points out how the ontology languages of the Semantic Web can lead to more powerful agent-based approaches for using services offered on the Web.
Agents and the Semantic Web
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Mathematics Computer Science