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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Dialectical Approach to Enable Decision Making in Online Trading
Software agents, acting on behalf of humans, have been identified as an important solution for future electronic markets. Such agents can make their own decisions given prior preferences and the market environ...
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Data Stream Mining with Limited Validation Opportunity: Towards Instrument Failure Prediction
A data stream mining mechanism for predicting instrument failure, founded on the concept of time series analysis, is presented. The objective is to build a model that can predict instrument failure so that som...
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An Implemented Dialogue System for Inquiry and Persuasion
In this paper, we present an implemented system that enables autonomous agents to engage in dialogues that involve inquiries embedded within a process of practical reasoning. The implementation builds upon an ...
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Task Oriented Evaluation of Module Extraction Techniques
Ontology Modularization techniques identify coherent and often reusable regions within an ontology. The ability to identify such modules, thus potentially reducing the size or complexity of an ontology for a g...
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OWL-S Atomic Services Composition with SWRL Rules
This paper presents a method for encoding OWL-S atomic processes by means of SWRL rules and composing them using a backward search planning algorithm. A description of the preliminary prototype implementation ...
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Releasing the Power of Digital Metadata: Examining Large Networks of Co-related Publications
Bibliographic metadata plays a key role in scientific literature, not only to summarise and establish the facts of the publication record, but also to track citations between publications and hence to establis...
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A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the advancement of the electronic...
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A Semantic Framework for Priority-Based Service Matching in Pervasive Environments
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. The existing approaches such as **i [...
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Formal Specification of OWL-S with Object-Z: The Dynamic Aspect
OWL-S, one of the most significant Semantic Web Service ontologies proposed to date, provides Web Service providers with a core ontological framework and guidelines for describing the properties and capabiliti...
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Reaching Agreement over Ontology Alignments
When agents communicate, they do not necessarily use the same vocabulary or ontology. For them to interact successfully, they must find correspondences (map**s) between the terms used in their respective ont...
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Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web service technol...
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Agents and OWL-S
Although Semantic Web Services have recently received a great deal of attention, the use of semantics to describe distributed cooperating components is not new. Multi-Agent Systems have long addressed the prob...
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Towards a Protocol for the Attachment of Semantic Descriptions to Grid Services
Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic descripti...
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Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons
The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to this, however, is th...
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Semantic Web Service Interaction Protocols: An Ontological Approach
A central requirement for achieving the vision of run-time discovery and dynamic composition of services is the provision of appropriate descriptions of the operation of a service, that is, how the service int...
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Agents and the Grid
The Grid is a large-scale computer system, capable of coordinating resources that are not subject to centralised control, while using standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces, and delivering no...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automated Negotiation for Grid Notification Services
Notification Services mediate between information publishers and consumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services - Web-accessible programs and devices - are garnering a great deal of interest ...
