ADVISORY AGENTS IN THE SEMANTIC WEB

Ralf Bruns, Jürgen Dunkel, Sascha Ossowski

2005

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the advances of the Semantic E-learning Agent project, whose objective is to develop virtual student advisers that render support to university students in order to successfully organize und perform their studies. The advisory agents are developed with novel concepts of the Semantic Web and agent technology. The key concept is the semantic modeling of the domain knowledge by means of XML-based ontology languages such as OWL. Software agents apply ontological and domain knowledge in order to assist human users in their decision making processes. Agent technology enables the incorporation of personal confidential data with public accessible knowledge sources of the Semantic Web in the same inference process.

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Bruns R., Dunkel J. and Ossowski S. (2005). ADVISORY AGENTS IN THE SEMANTIC WEB . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 90-96. DOI: 10.5220/0002546500900096


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Ralf Bruns and Jürgen Dunkel and Sascha Ossowski},
title={ADVISORY AGENTS IN THE SEMANTIC WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={90-96},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002546500900096},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - ADVISORY AGENTS IN THE SEMANTIC WEB
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Bruns R.
AU - Dunkel J.
AU - Ossowski S.
PY - 2005
SP - 90
EP - 96
DO - 10.5220/0002546500900096