TY - GEN
T1 - A contract agreement policy-based workflow methodology for agents interacting in the semantic web
AU - Kravari, Kalliopi
AU - Kastori, Grammati Eirini
AU - Bassiliades, Nick
AU - Governatori, Guido
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Semantic Web aims at automating Web content understanding and user request satisfaction. Intelligent agents assist towards this by performing complex actions on behalf of their users into real-life applications, such as e-Contracts, which make transactions simple by modeling the processes involved. This paper, presents a policy-based workflow methodology for efficient contract agreement among agents interacting in the Semantic Web. In addition, we present the integration of this methodology into a multi-agent knowledge-based framework, providing flexibility, reusability and interoperability of behavior between agents. The main advantage of our approach is that it provides a safe, generic, and reusable framework for modeling and monitoring e-Contract agreements, which could be used for different types of on-line transactions among agents. Furthermore, our framework is based on Semantic Web and FIPA standards, to maximize interoperability and reusability. Finally, an e-Commerce contract negotiation scenario is presented that illustrates the usability of the approach.
AB - The Semantic Web aims at automating Web content understanding and user request satisfaction. Intelligent agents assist towards this by performing complex actions on behalf of their users into real-life applications, such as e-Contracts, which make transactions simple by modeling the processes involved. This paper, presents a policy-based workflow methodology for efficient contract agreement among agents interacting in the Semantic Web. In addition, we present the integration of this methodology into a multi-agent knowledge-based framework, providing flexibility, reusability and interoperability of behavior between agents. The main advantage of our approach is that it provides a safe, generic, and reusable framework for modeling and monitoring e-Contract agreements, which could be used for different types of on-line transactions among agents. Furthermore, our framework is based on Semantic Web and FIPA standards, to maximize interoperability and reusability. Finally, an e-Commerce contract negotiation scenario is presented that illustrates the usability of the approach.
KW - defeasible reasoning
KW - e-Contracts
KW - intelligent agents
KW - semantic web
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16289-3_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16289-3_19
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:78449234182
SN - 3642162886
SN - 9783642162886
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 225
EP - 239
BT - Semantic Web Rules - International Symposium, RuleML 2010, Proceedings
PB - Springer-Verlag Italia Srl
ER -