Utilizing Semantic Web and Software Agents in a Travel Support System

The use of Semantic Web technologies in e-business is hampered by the lack of large, publiclyavailable sources of semantically-demarcated data. In this chapter, we present a number of intermediate steps on the road toward the Semantic Web. Specifically, we discuss how Semantic Web technologies can be adapted as the centerpiece of an agent-based travel support system. First, we present a complete description of the system under development. Second, we introduce ontologies developed for, and utilized in, our system. Finally, we discuss and illustrate through examples how ontologically demarcated data collected in our system is personalized for individual users. In particular, we show how the proposed ontologies can be used to create, manage, and deploy functional user profiles.

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Utilizing Semantic Web and Software Agents in a Travel Support System

Software Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch089 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1507-1532

Author(s):

Maria Ganzha ◽

Maciej Gawinecki ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

Rafal Gasiorowski ◽

Szymon Pisarek ◽

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Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Support System ◽

Software Agents ◽

User Profiles ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Agent Based ◽

Web Technologies ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road

The use of Semantic Web technologies in e-business is hampered by the lack of large, publiclyavailable sources of semantically-demarcated data. In this chapter, we present a number of intermediate steps on the road toward the Semantic Web. Specifically, we discuss how Semantic Web technologies can be adapted as the centerpiece of an agent-based travel support system. First, we present a complete description of the system under development. Second, we introduce ontologies developed for, and utilized in, our system. Finally, we discuss and illustrate through examples how ontologically demarcated data collected in our system is personalized for individual users.In particular, we show how the proposed ontologies can be used to create, manage, and deploy functional user profiles.

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Utilizing Semantic Web and Software Agents in a Travel Support System

Semantic Knowledge Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-034-9.ch017 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 341-369

Author(s):

Maria Ganzha ◽

Maciej Gawinecki ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

Rafal Gasiorowski ◽

Szymon Pisarek ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Support System ◽

Software Agents ◽

User Profiles ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Agent Based ◽

Web Technologies ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road

The use of Semantic Web technologies in e-business is hampered by the lack of large, publicly-available sources of semantically-demarcated data. In this chapter, we present a number of intermediate steps on the road toward the Semantic Web. Specifically, we discuss how Semantic Web technologies can be adapted as the centerpiece of an agent-based travel support system. First, we present a complete description of the system under development. Second, we introduce ontologies developed for, and utilized in, our system. Finally, we discuss and illustrate through examples how ontologically demarcated data collected in our system is personalized for individual users. In particular, we show how the proposed ontologies can be used to create, manage, and deploy functional user profiles.

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Enhancing Social Networks with Agent and Semantic Web Technologies

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology - Collaboration and the Semantic Web ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0894-8.ch005 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 83-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Federico Bergenti ◽

Enrico Franchi ◽

Agostino Poggi

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Semantic Web ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Agent Based ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Agent Systems ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Relevant Work

In this chapter, the authors describe the relationships between multi-agent systems, social networks, and the Semantic Web within collaborative work; they also review how the integration of multi-agent systems and Semantic Web technologies and techniques can be used to enhance social networks at all scales. The chapter first provides a review of relevant work on the application of agent-based models and abstractions to the key ingredients of our work: collaborative systems, the Semantic Web, and social networks. Then, the chapter discusses the reasons current multi-agent systems and their foreseen evolution might be a fundamental means for the realization of the future Semantic Social Networks. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.

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Records in contexts: the road of archives to semantic interoperability

Program electronic library and information systems ◽

10.1108/prog-03-2017-0021 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 387-405 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dunia Llanes-Padrón ◽

Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Semantic Interoperability ◽

Data Sets ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Content Type ◽

Web Technologies ◽

The Road ◽

Owl Ontology

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the Records in Contexts proposal of a conceptual model (RiC-CM) from the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) archival description and to propose an OWL ontology for its implementation in the semantic web. Design/methodology/approach The various elements of the model are studied and are related to earlier norms in order to understand their structure and the modeling of the ontology. Findings The analysis reveals the integrating nature of RiC-CM and the possibilities it offers for greater interoperability of data from archival descriptions. Two versions of an OWL ontology were developed to represent the conceptual model. The first makes a direct transposition of the conceptual model; the second optimizes the properties and relations in order to simplify the use and maintenance of the ontology. Research limitations/implications The proposed ontology will follow the considerations of the final version of the ICA’s RiC-CM. Practical implications The analysis affords an understanding of the role of RiC-CM in publishing online archival data sets, while the ontology is an initial approach to the semantic web technologies involved. Originality/value This paper offers an overview of Records in Contexts with respect to the advantages in the field of semantic interoperability, and supposes the first proposal of an ontology based on the conceptual model.

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ControlSem – distributed decision support system based on semantic web technologies for the analysis of the medical procedures

3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction ◽

10.1109/hsi.2010.5742783 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jan Andreasik ◽

Andrzej Ciebiera ◽

Slawomir Umpirowicz

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Semantic Web ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Medical Procedures ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Distributed Decision

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A Fuzzy Linguistic Multi-agent Model Based on Semantic Web Technologies and User Profiles

Soft Computing in Web Information Retrieval - Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ◽

10.1007/11370697_6 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 105-120

Author(s):

Enrique Herrera-Viedma ◽

Eduardo Peis ◽

José Morales-del-Castillo

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

User Profiles ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Agent Model ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Model Based ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Fuzzy Linguistic

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Applying Semantic Web to E-Tourism

Web Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-982-3.ch055 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1027-1049

Author(s):

Danica Damljanovic ◽

Vladan Devedžic

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Prototype System ◽

User Profiles ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies ◽

The Core ◽

Tourism Management ◽

Sophisticated User ◽

Machine Readable ◽

The Web

Traditional E-Tourism applications store data internally in a form that is not interoperable with similar systems. Hence, tourist agents spend plenty of time updating data about vacation packages in order to provide good service to their clients. On the other hand, their clients spend plenty of time searching for the ‘perfect’ vacation package as the data about tourist offers are not integrated and are available from different spots on the Web. We developed Travel Guides - a prototype system for tourism management to illustrate how semantic web technologies combined with traditional E-Tourism applications: a.) help integration of tourism sources dispersed on the Web b) enable creating sophisticated user profiles. Maintaining quality user profiles enables system personalization and adaptivity of the content shown to the user. The core of this system is in ontologies – they enable machine readable and machine understandable representation of the data and more importantly reasoning.

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