Global Understanding Environment: Applying Semantic Web to Industrial Automation

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Acknowledgements. We are grateful to Tekes (National Technology Agency of Finland), Agora Center of the University of Jyväskylä, and cooperating companies (ABB, Metso Automation, TeliaSonera, TietoEnator, and Jyväskylä Science Park) for supporting activities of the SmartResource project. Special thanks to ABB for collaboration on the case study reported in this paper, and permission to publish the results. Thanks to Oleksiy Khriyenko for creating some of the figures for this paper.

7. Questions for Discussion

How you see the specifics of the Industrial Automation domain from the point of view of the way the Semantic Web technology should be applied there?
How you see the added value the Semantic Web technology provides for Multi-Agent Systems?
Can you estimate and explain the time needed for the full implementation of the Semantic Web of Things?
How you see a possibility to manage distributed and heterogeneous ontologies as agent-driven smart resources?
Compare the two possible architectures of MAS, if according to the first one the personal records of agents (semantically annotated BDI) are kept locally at agent platforms and exchanged via communication, but according to the second one the records are stored in a common BDI semantic warehouse and directly accessed by all.
Do you think reasonable to copy hierarchical human-like organization of agent communities for MAS or it is better to allow fully decentralized organization? Is the impact of Semantic Web in these two cases for industrial systems development will be the same or different?

8. Suggested Additional Reading
E.W. Schuster, S.J. Allen, and D.L. Brock, Global RFID, ISBN: 3-540-35654-1, Springer, October 2006, 330 pp.
Proactive Computing Overview, Intel Research, available in: http://www.intel.com/research/documents/proactivepdf.pdf
IBM: Service-Oriented Architecture, http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/ .
Knowledge Media Institute Publications on the concept of “Real Semantic Web”, Available in: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/publications.cfm?id=110.
Aware.IT Publications on Pervasive Computing and the Semantic Web synergies, Available in: http://www.awareit.com/blog/index.php?/pages/publications.html .
TAPAS Project (Telematics Architecture for Play-Based Adaptable System) Publications: http://tapas.item.ntnu.no/publication.php?page=publications.papers .
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1 David Brock and Ed Schuster (MIT Data Center) at Semantic Days 2006, Norway, April 26, 2006, http://www.olf.no/english/news/?30357

2 SmartResource project Web site: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/SmartResource_details.htm

3 http://www.nsf.gov/cise/geni/

4 Industrial Ontologies Group Web site: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/index.html

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