A contract agreement policy-based workflow methodology for agents interacting in the semantic web

Authors:
Kalliopi Kravari;Grammati-Eirini Kastori;Nick Bassiliades;Guido Governatori
Affiliations:
Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
Venue:
RuleML'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Semantic web rules
Year:
2010

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Abstract

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.