This thesis endevours unifying contributions towards some still unsolved issues for the development of both the SEWASIE system and autonomous semantic Web services. The former is a European project (name: SEmantic Webs and AgentS in... more
This thesis endevours unifying contributions towards some still unsolved issues for the development of both the SEWASIE system and autonomous semantic Web services. The former is a European project (name: SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies, number: IST-2001-34825) involving academic and commercial partnership. The latter is a project undertaken at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) as part of the DAML program (under the US Air Force Research Laboratory, contract F30601-00-2-0592) as well as the Interoperability program (under ONR, contract N00014-02-1-0499). The premises of this thesis were born of personal research activity at Intelligent Software Trusting the Socratic teaching that original achievements cannot arise from else than critical analysis of past knowledge, the backbone of this thesis is an accurate examination of relevant papers in the fields of Intelligent Integration systems, agent technology, Description Logics, ontology languages. Furthermore,...
