title: OntoTrader: an ontological Web trading agent approach for environmental information retrieval.
abstract: Modern Web-based Information Systems (WIS) are becoming increasingly necessary to provide support for users who are in different places with different types of information, by facilitating their access to the information, decision making, workgroups, and so forth. Design of these systems requires the use of standardized methods and techniques that enable a common vocabulary to be defined to represent the underlying knowledge. Thus, mediation elements such as traders enrich the interoperability of web components in open distributed systems. These traders must operate with other third-party traders and/or agents in the system, which must also use a common vocabulary for communication between them. This paper presents the OntoTrader architecture, an Ontological Web Trading agent based on the OMG ODP trading standard. It also presents the ontology needed by some system agents to communicate with the trading agent and the behavioral framework for the SOLERES OntoTrader agent, an Environmental Management Information System (EMIS). This framework implements a "Query-Searching/Recovering-Response" information retrieval model using a trading service, SPARQL notation, and the JADE platform. The paper also presents reflection, delegation and, federation mediation models and describes formalization, an experimental testing environment in three scenarios, and a tool which allows our proposal to be evaluated and validated.
authors: Applied Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Iribarne
authors: Applied Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
authors: Nicolás
authors: N
authors: Padilla
authors: Applied Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
authors: Rosa
authors: R
authors: Ayala
authors: Applied Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
authors: José A
authors: JA
authors: Asensio
authors: Applied Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
authors: Javier
authors: J
authors: Criado
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D004777:Environment; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D061108:Social Media; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled