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Research Directions to Support
Next-Generation Web Visions
Professor Michael N. Huhns
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Human  Machine
 Passive  Active
 Client-Server  P2P  Cooperative
 Syntax  Semantics
 Mutual Understanding
 Data  Services  Process
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The Keys
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Systemic trust
 Semantic understanding
 Cooperative services
with a declarative agent-based
infrastructure
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Systemic Trust
Fundamentally
• The information you retrieve must be accurate, or
characterized accurately
• The information you contribute must be used
appropriately
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Requires
• Sources have reliability and reputation, and specify
constraints on usage
• Dependencies are preserved and maintained
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Result: information items have credibility and
domains of utility
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Basis for Trust
Understanding, including
• Accuracy
• Context
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Philosophy, ethics, and norms
• Explicit ethics
• Societal conventions
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Consensus Ontologies for
Semantic Understanding
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If you want people and agents to find
information about the product or service
that you provide, should you put the
information where it belongs, or where
people and agents are most likely to look?
• If most people think a whale is a kind of fish,
then should you put information about whales
in the fish or in the mammal category?
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Project Overview
Assumptions:
• No global ontology
• Individual sources have individual ontologies
• Ontologies are heterogeneous and
inconsistent
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Hypothesis:
• Large numbers of individual ontologies can
be related by exploiting redundancy
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Relating Ontologies
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Initial Experiment:
55 Individual Ontologies
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55 Merged
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Consensus Ontology
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Cooperative Services
Asynchrony
 Choice
 Negotiation
 Composition
 Declarative, not procedural
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Agent-Based Coordination
Methodology
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BOD
Semantics
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Develop B2B
Interaction
Diagrams
Identify B2B
Conversations
Create
Agent-Based
B2B
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Generic B2B
Use-Case
and Class
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Enact B2B
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Interaction Diagram for Ford
Interoperability Scenario
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Transaction Skeletons
for Agent Enactment
Supplier
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Augmented Transaction Skeletons for
Agent-Based Exception Handling
Ignore Exceptions
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Consider Exceptions
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