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How the semantic web will change KR: challenges and opportunities for a new research agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2002

FRANK VAN HARMELEN
FRANK VAN HARMELEN
Affiliation:
Department of AI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Currently the Web is the largest available environment for the deployment of agents, and much work in agent research is driven by Web-based applications (Luke et al. (1997), Joachims et al. (1997), Bollacker et al. (1998), Doorenbos et al. (1997) are just some examples; see also the May 2000 special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal on intelligent internet systems, 118 (1–2)). However, such applications of agent technology are hampered by the fact that the Web is not geared towards agent use, but is rather designed for human use. Current Web resources are lacking in explicit, machine-accessible descriptions of their contents; they are only fully accessible to agents with a competent grasp of English (i.e. limited to human agents only).

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Research Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 93 - 96
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This material is directly based on a workshop session during the Dagstuhl Seminar on the Semantic Web in the spring of 2000, updated by many discussions in the period since that memorable week. Although all those present at the Dagstuhl seminar have contributed to what follows, I want to acknowledge in particular the contributions of Stefan Decker, Jim Hendler and Deborah McGuinness.