Semantic Web Agent Communication Capable of Reasoning with Ontology and Agent Locations

Multi-agent communication of Semantic Web information cannot be realized without the need to reason with ontology and agent locations. This is because for an agent to be able to reason with an external semantic web ontology, it must know where and how to access to that ontology. Similarly, for an agent to be able to communicate with another agent, it must know where and how to send a message to that agent. In this paper we propose a framework of an agent which can reason with ontology and agent locations in order to perform reasoning with multiple distributed ontologies and perform communication with other agents on the semantic web. The agent framework and its communication mechanism are formulated entirely in meta-logic.

Authors:

• Visit Hirankitti
• Vuong Tran Xuan

Keywords:

• Semantic Web
• agent communication
• ontologies.

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