Basics of Software Agents and Languages of the Semantic Web

Abstract

The World Wide Web (WWW - A network of servers linked together by a common protocol, allowing access to millions of hypertext resources. It is also known as W3, the Web, and the World Wide Web) changes the availability of electronic information drastically. At present, there are more than a billion web pages and the number rises further rapidly. This rapid growth has however as a consequence that it becomes ever more difficult, to find information to organize and administer. The inventor of the WWW [1] suggested the Semantic Web as the solution to these problems as an extension of the existing Internet. At the core of this proposal for a solution, it is the information with machine-processable semantics, available on the net, to annotate. In this way software agents, or general programmers, will be able, to “understand” information about the WWW. With respect to this, the new generation of the World Wide Web, called the Semantic Web, is briefly considered.