This paper surveys and analyzes the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce
(e-commerce), concentrating particularly on the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business …

Ontology is one of the fundamental cornerstones of the semantic Web. The pervasive use of
ontologies in information sharing and knowledge management calls for efficient and …

Description Logics are a family of knowledge representation languages that have been
studied extensively in Artificial Intelligence over the last two decades. They are embodied in …

In recent years the development of ontologies—explicit formal specifications of the terms in
the domain and relations among them (Gruber 1993)—has been moving from the realm of …

A concise and lucid exposition of the major topics in knowledge representation, from two of
the leading authorities in the field.-Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley The information is valuable …

The authors propose the markup of Web services in the DAML family of Semantic Web
markup languages. This markup enables a wide variety of agent technologies for automated …

The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in
the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages …

As researchers continue to create new languages in the hope of develo** a Semantic
Web, they still lack consensus on a standard. The authors describe how Protege-2000, a …

There are now several billion documents on the World Wide Web (WWW), which are used
by more than 300 million users globally, and millions more pages on corporate intranets …

Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many
domain areas. This distributed nature of ontology development has led to a large number of …