Integrating Agents, Ontologies, and Web Services to Build Flexible Sketch-based Applications

Abstract

Abstract. We present an approach based on web services, for building open and dynamic agent societies aimed at hand-drawn sketch recognition. The approach exploits ontologies to enable agents to agree on message semantics and service purposes, standard web services languages to represent agent interaction protocols in a suitable way to be exchanged and handled by agents and web services to expose low-level recognition services. The communication mechanisms that characterize our approach, as well as the modular architecture allow agent societies to self-organize at run time, for gaining the capability of recognizing new domain languages, thus obtaining new flexible sketch-based applications.