Hi Melvin, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: Today we are nowhere near this vision. In fact, >> >> we may be further removed from it today than we were in 2001. If you >> look at the last ISWC there was particularly little work on (Web) agents. >> > I think this may be more a reflection on ISWC than the semantic web. > Good point. It's hard to make a useful client side app that is original, because > normally the same functionality exists somewhere on some server. So at > that point it probably will struggle to qualify as original research. > I was also referring to more theoretic research into agents, agent calculi and the like as a basis for computation. If you search for "Semantic Web agents" on Google Scholar you find that most papers are from 2001-2005. This was apparently a research focus back then, which is what I meant when I said that " we may be further removed from it today than we were in 2001." --- Best, Woute r . Email: w.g.j.beek@vu.nl WWW: wouterbeek.com Tel: +31647674624
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