A Unifying Framework for Agency in Hypermedia Environments

Charpenay V, Käfer T, Harth A (2022)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Verlag

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Book Volume: 13190 LNAI

Pages Range: 42-61

Conference Proceedings Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Event location: London, GBR

ISBN: 9783030974565

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97457-2_3

Abstract

One of the emerging trends in engineering multi-agent systems (MASs) is to use the Web as an environment. On the Web, hypermedia is the guiding principle of agent perception and action. Web standards allows agents to have a single uniform interface to their environment, be it real or simulated. Most recent proposals for hypermedia MASs tend, however, to introduce a coupling between agents or between agents and their environment. This paper introduces a framework based on Semantic Web technologies to formalize interactions between agents and a hypermedia environment. Semantic Web technologies and, more specifically Web ontologies, guarantee interoperability on the Web and maximize uncoupling between components. We show how existing ontologies can be used to make existing MAS prototypes fit our framework. Our framework formalizes the guiding principle of agent-environment interactions in hypermedia, state transfer, with respect to a reference formalism originally introduced by Genesereth and Nilsson. We also show the equivalence between the two in the paper, under certain conditions.

Authors with CRIS profile

Andreas Harth Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Technische Informationssysteme

Involved external institutions

Laboratoire d’informatique de modélisation et d’optimisation des systèmes (LIMOS) FR France (FR) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Charpenay, V., Käfer, T., & Harth, A. (2022). A Unifying Framework for Agency in Hypermedia Environments. In Natasha Alechina, Matteo Baldoni, Brian Logan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 42-61). London, GBR: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.

MLA:

Charpenay, Victor, Tobias Käfer, and Andreas Harth. "A Unifying Framework for Agency in Hypermedia Environments." Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021, London, GBR Ed. Natasha Alechina, Matteo Baldoni, Brian Logan, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. 42-61.

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