Combining Semantic Web technologies with Multi-Agent Systems for integrated access to biological resources

  • Authors:

  • Francisco García-Sánchez;Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis;Rafael Valencia-García;Juan Miguel Gómez;Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar

  • Affiliations:

  • Dpto. Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Dpto. Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Dpto. Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Dpto. de Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Campus de Leganés, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganes (Madrid), Spain;Dpto. Ingenieria de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The increasing volume and diversity of information in biomedical research is demanding new approaches for data integration in this domain. Semantic Web technologies and applications can leverage the potential of biomedical information integration and discovery, facing the problem of semantic heterogeneity of biomedical information sources. In such an environment, agent technology can assist users in discovering and invoking the services available on the Internet. In this paper we present SEMMAS, an ontology-based, domain-independent framework for seamlessly integrating Intelligent Agents and Semantic Web Services. Our approach is backed with a proof-of-concept implementation where the breakthrough and efficiency of integrating disparate biomedical information sources have been tested.