Semantic Web and Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies: Current and Future Trends - (Position Paper)

One of the first discussions about a Web enriched with semantics and its relationships with artificial intelligence (and hence, with intelligent agents) dates back to 1998 [4], but it was only ten years ago that the idea of a Semantic Web on top of which agent-based computing would have allowed computer programs to interact with non-local web-based resources, became familiar to a wide audience of scientists [5, 10]. The integration of Semantic Web concepts as first class entities inside agent languages, technologies, and engineering methodologies has different levels of maturity: many AOSE methodologies, organizational models and MAS architectures seamlessly integrate them (for example, [20], [19], and the FIPA “Ontology Service Specification”, www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00086/, respectively), but few languages do. In this position paper we review the state of the art in the integration of semantic web concepts in declarative agent languages and technologies and outline what we expect to be the future trends of this research topic.