Re: Technical Notes, public web agents

Dear Paola, 

Thank you for pushing this topic forward. Knowledge representation for AI agents and multi-agent systems is clearly of interest to several active participants in the WebAgents CG. 

The ongoing work on the interoperability report will hopefully help outline requirements and needs for knowledge engineering efforts in this space. The report will likely be a good place to connect and consolidate related contributions. 

I also agree that it would be useful to strengthen interaction and alignment not only within the WebAgents CG, but also with related groups such as the AIKR CG and the S-Agent-Comm CG. I will bring up this point in the next regular meeting. 

Regarding the initiative mentioned by Antoine in the last meeting — this refers to the Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems (hMAS) ontology, which is currently organized into 3 modules: 
- hmas-core: http://purl.org/hmas/core 
- hmas-interaction: https://purl.org/hmas/interaction 
- hmas-regulation: https://purl.org/hmas/regulation 

The GitHub repository with the currently available documentation is here: http://github.com/hyperagents/hmas 

For additional context, this paper shows how we use the hMAS ontology in one of our frameworks for Web-based MAS (presented in a past regular meeting): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-01082-7_7 

Best wishes, 
Andrei 

> De: "Paola Di Maio" <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> À: public-webagents@w3.org
> Cc: "Autonomous Agents on the Web Community Group" <public-webagents@w3.org>
> Envoyé: Dimanche 1 Mars 2026 09:47:54
> Objet: Technical Notes, public web agents

> Dear Andrei and everyone

> Thanks for listening to my presentation at the last meeting

> The bottom line from a AI KR perspective is that
> there can be no security/safety/interoperability in AI until we have a clear
> Knowledge representation/conceptual model /ontology for the domain

> I am a bit surprised that the information technology community has been silent
> about knowledge representation in AI/Agents

> Just to say that it would be great to continue discussions via this mailing list
> in between meetings
> as things continue to happen that need our constant attention

> Please remind us where we are in this CG from time to time!

> I would also love to hear from other participants what they are working on,
> especially on the agent interoperability front
> *I have more to share on that topic if/when you d like to hear about it

> The latest note from me is shared via some other CGs
> [ https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-aikr/2026Feb/0015.html |
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-aikr/2026Feb/0015.html ]

> and the TN here
> [ https://github.com/Starborn/webmcp/blob/main/TN4.md |
> https://github.com/Starborn/webmcp/blob/main/TN4.md ]

> can benefit from being discussed
> The priority is to make sure that things do not happen above our head without
> understanding what is going on
> because there is not enough shared knowledge/understanding about what is taking
> place

> This knowledge fragmentation is something that can be engineered to create the
> vacuum where very undesirable things can happen
> *that Agenti AI trolls take over the web :-)

> I would also like to continue contributing to the interoperability report AND
> hear more about the hyperagent
> *was it the hyperagent we were talking about that you mentioned?

> There is so much going on, it's nice to be reminded how the thread are holding
> together

> We do important work but there is lack of interaction and things happen very
> fast in the world of web ai agents etc

> Have a great weekend everyone

> Paola

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 6:58 PM Andrei Ciortea (W3C Calendar) < [
> mailto:noreply%2Bcalendar@w3.org | noreply+calendar@w3.org ] > wrote:

>> [
>> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/c5855bad-fd18-45ce-973f-e0f716dd6bed/20260227T160000/
>> | View this event in your browser ] W3C WebAgents CG: Biweekly Call (Fridays)
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>>                         Autonomous Agents on the Web Community Group
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