Ontologies, agents and the grid—an overview

semantic information processing. One of the important claims that permeate current view of information management is that ontological demarcation of data and semantic information processing are going to allow to infuse “intelligence ” into information systems. Separately, it is claimed that software agents, combined with ontologies will be the foundation of Web 4.0. In our work we are developing an agent-team-based resource management and brokering infrastructure for computational Grids. The proposed meta-level middleware is to utilize both software agents and ontologies. In this context, the aim of this chapter is twofold. First, we present an overview of found efforts to develop ontologies to be used in Grid and agent-Grid computing. Second, we analyze which one of them, if any, should be the base ontology for the system under development. References 1 hal-00834412, version 1- 17 Jun 2013 One of the important claims that permeate current view of information managemen