A knowledge technologies-based multi-agent system for eGovernment environments

  • Authors:
  • Francisco García-Sánchez;Luis Alvarez Sabucedo;Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar;Luis Anido Rifón;Rafael Valencia-García;Juan M. Gómez

  • Affiliations:
  • Univeridad de Murcia, Spain;Universidade de Vigo, Spain;Univeridad de Murcia, Spain;Universidade de Vigo, Spain;Univeridad de Murcia, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • SOCASE'08 Proceedings of the 2008 AAMAS international conference on Service-oriented computing: agents, semantics, and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The increasing volume of eGovernment-related services is demandingnew approaches for service integration and interoperability inthis domain. Semantic Web technologies and applications can leveragethe potential of eGovernment service integration and discovery, facing theproblems of semantic heterogeneity of eGovernment information sourcesand the different levels of interoperability. In line with this, eGovernmentservices will be semantically described in the foreseeable future. In anenvironment with semantically-annotated services, software agents areessential as the entities responsible for exploiting the semantic contentin order to automate some tasks thus improving the user experience. In this paper, we first present SEMMAS, an ontology-based Multi-Agent framework for seamlessly integrating Intelligent Agents and SemanticWeb Services. The proposed framework is independent from boththe application and the domain. Our approach is backed with a proof-of conceptimplementation where the breakthrough of integrating disparateeGovernment services has been tested.