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

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.

Use of Semantic Web Technologies and Multilinguistic Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Access to Biomedical Resources

“…In [11] 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.…”

An intelligent framework to manage robotic autonomous agents

“…The integrated system, built on the basis of SEMMAS (García-Sánchez, Fernández-Breis, Valencia-García, Gómez, & Martínez-Béjar, 2008, which is a framework for seamlessly integrating IA and SWS, is composed of three loosely-coupled components (see Fig. 2): a Multi-Agent System (MAS) with different types of agents, an ontology repository in which several ontologies are stored, and a bunch of services divided into two distinguished groups: Web Services and robot-provided services.…”

A Knowledge Technologies-Based Multi-Agent System for Semantic Web Services Environments

“…El prototipo implementado ha sido testado empíricamente sobre tres escenarios de ejemplo en los dominios de e-Comercio [4], bioinformática [3] y e-Administración [5]. El escenario planteado para el dominio de e-Comercio está compuesto por un usuario que desea realizar una compra, y un conjunto de proveedores de productos informáticos que permiten el acceso a sus catálogos de productos a través de servicios Web.…”