Resources, Agents and Processes in the context of Next Generation World Wide Web

Dr. Evgeny OsipovHead of Communication Networks group

Luleå University of Technology

Outline

• The World Wide Web• This dissertation is about:

• Resources• Agents• Processes• Context

• The contribution is…

The WWW ’smartness’ evolution

Where are we going?

” By 2029, sufficient computation to simulate the entire human brain, which I estimate at about 1016 (10 million billion) calculations per second (cps), will cost about a dollar. By that time, intelligent machines will combine the subtle and supple skills that humans now excel in (essentially our powers of pattern recognition) with ways in which machines are already superior, such as remembering trillions of facts accurately, searching quickly through vast databases, and downloading skills and knowledge.”

Raymond Kurzweil. A pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

How to make the machines intelligent?

The dissertation takes a new turn on the spiral of scientific development

The Internet1969

AI1956

Hypertext 1945

Semantic (20XX?)

Computers194x

Web (1990)

The major categories in the dissertation are…

• Resources• Agents• Processes • Context

“The Way to a Man's Heart is Through His Stomach”…

Problem: to find an effective way of communicating the functionality between heterogeneous objects to achieve a certain goal

Humans always wanted to identify an ”ambassador” in their social relationships.

Some uncited references: The Matrix (1999)

In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an entity which observes and acts upon an environment and directs its activity towards achieving goals

Some uncited references -2: The Golden Compass (1997)

• Agent is a representative of a resource

• Behavior of agents is different in different contexts

• Heterogeneous resources are involved in complex goal driven inteactions (processes)

Some uncited references -3: Hobbit – Tolkien (1937)

Agents provide interfaces to their resources

Fundamental questions…

How to describe a resource? –solutions exist for ’traditional’ web resources…

RDFOWL

XML

Ontologies

• New type of resources that exist in physical world emerged – THINGS;

• The most complicated intelligent agents are rational, thinking human beings;

The dissertation adapts the resource description framework to include smart physical devices and makes humans as a native part of the electronic information exchange process

Fundametal questions…

How to involve resources in a complex functionality? Some solutions exists: SOA, Middleware

The dissertation describes a novel framework for integrating heterogeneous resources in the global understanding environment.

Fundamental questions…

How to make resources adaptable in different contexts?

This is a challenge.

The dissertation describes a resource description language that allow to reflect the dynamics of resource interactions.

The dissertation of Oleksiy Khriyenko…

• Considers Semantic Web as a holistic ecosystem – Technology+Humans+Process;

• Addresses a broad and challenging task;

• Contributes to the knowledge of building more versatile and intelligent systems out of interacting intelligent agents in a multi-agent system.

Resources, Agents, Processes in the context of Next Generation World Wide Web

Evgeny Osipov Luleå University of Technology

This dissertation looks at…Well this question is not new:

Artificial intelligence (1956) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success.[

(Spiral development)

Look at language semantics!! Languages describing languages

This makes this topic challengingAnother turn