One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...
With increasing popularity of using ontologies, many industrial and clinical applications have employed ontologies as their conceptual backbone. Ontologies try to capture knowledge...
Acquiring knowledge from the Web to build domain ontologies has become a common practice in the Ontological Engineering field. The vast amount of freely available information allo...
We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those ga...