NOWHERE - An Open Service Architecture to support Agents and Services within the Semantic Web

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NOWHERE - An Open Service Architecture to Support Agents and Services within the Semantic Web

Agents are one of the main building blocks of the World Wide Web under the Semantic Web activity [1]. The Web is evolving toward an open, serviceoriented architecture, which is a software infrastructure that makes an open set of information services available to users and agents. The role of agents is to retrieve, execute and compose available services providing more sophisticated instances of them. Knowledge is playing an increasingly important role in this scenario, services are being extended with semantic information [11] and agents will provide complex problem solving capabilities to perform their tasks