Agent Semantic Communication Services
Abstract
Agent Semantic Communication Services (ASCS) addressed a fundamental issue in the adoption and use of semantic technologies. It provided a semantic search engine with Web-scale architecture. Semantic search answers a logical query by return bindings for the unbound variables in the query. In information retrieval approaches such as Google, a large number of URIs are returned that contain one or more of the search keywords, ranked by an estimate of how relevant they are to the user's query. The simplistic ASCS search is based on a single search agent. The agent uses a combination of lookup and inference techniques to return answers from its repository. The full ASCS search is based on a network of distributed agents. The ASCS project created one such search agent. The final version was checked into SemWebCentral.org as the OWL Semantic Search Services project. The OWL Semantic Search Service is a good tool for trying disparate data sources together. It is not restricted to the Web. ASCS is ready for transition to early adopters of semantic technologies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA436115
Entities
People
- Allan Terry
- John Li