Integrating External Sources in a Corporate Semantic Web Managed by a Multi-agent System

We first describe a multi-agent system managing a corporate memory in the form of a corporate semantic web. We then focus on a newly introduced society of agents in charge of wrapping external HTML documents that are relevant to the activities of the organization, by extracting semantic Web annotations using tailored XSLT templates. Agents and corporate semantic webs Organizations are entities living in a world with a past, a culture and inhabited by other actors; the pool of knowledge they mobilize for their activities is not bounded neither by their walls nor by their organizational structures: organizational memories may include or refer to resources external to the company (catalogs of norms, stock-markets quotations, digital libraries, etc.). Our research team currently studies the materialization of a corporate memory as a corporate semantic web; this follows the general trend to deploy organizational information systems using internet and web technologies to build intranets and...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AMKM
• Authors: Tuan-Dung Cao, Fabien Gandon
• Keywords: AMKM 2003, Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Memory, Corporate Semantic Web, Semantic Web Annotations