Paper Info
Title
A Decade in Hindsight: The Missing Bridge Between Multi-Agent Systems and the World Wide Web
Abstract
The World Wide Web has evolved drastically over the past decade – and the proliferation of Web APIs has turned it into the middle- ware of choice for most distributed systems. The recent focus on hypermedia-driven APIs together with initiatives such as the Web of Things and Linked Data are now promoting and advancing the development of a new generation of dynamic , open , and long-lived systems on the Web. These systems require agent-based solutions to the point that Web researchers have started to build autonomous systems on their own. It is thus both timely and necessary to in- vestigate and align the latest developments in Web research and multi-agent systems (MAS) research. In this paper, we analyze in hindsight the factors that hindered the widespread acceptance of early Web-based MAS. We argue that the answer lies equally in a lack of practical use cases as well as the premature development and alignment of Web and agent technologies. We then present our vision for a new generation of autonomous systems on the Web, which we call hypermedia MAS , together with the research opportunities and challenges they bring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.5555/3306127.3331893
adaptive agents and multi-agents systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hypermedia,Multi-Agent Systems,Web of Things,Semantic Web
Middleware,Web API,Web of Things,World Wide Web,Hypermedia,Computer science,Semantic Web,Linked data,Multi-agent system,Internet research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrei Ciortea124.44
Mayer, Simon225129.78
Fabien Gandon31023113.17
Olivier Boissier41155111.14
Alessandro Ricci51853131.18
Antoine Zimmermann628933.66