* Language: English
* Author: Marco Luca Sbodio
* Title: Planning Web Agents: Combining Intelligent Agents and Semantic Web Languages for Service Planning
* Defense: October 2009
* Abstract:
This thesis explores the use of standard Semantic Web Languages to fully and compactly characterize services, thus enabling Intelligent Agents to select and combine them in plans. We propose SPARQL (the standard Semantic Web query language) as a formal language to describe the preconditions and effects of services, as well as the goals of agents. We show that SPARQL query evaluation can be used to check the truth of preconditions in a given context, construct the effects that will result from the execution of a service in a context, and determine whether a service execution with those results will satisfy the goal of an agent. The contributions of this thesis are as follows: