The study of autonomous agents has a long tradition in the Multiagent Systems and the Semantic Web communities, with applications ranging from automating business processes to personal assistants. More recently, the Web of Things (WoT), which is an extension of the Internet of Things (IoT) with metadata expressed in Web standards, and its community provide further motivation for pushing the autonomous agents research agenda forward. Although representing and reasoning about norms, policies and preferences is crucial to ensuring that autonomous agents act in a manner that satisfies stakeholder requirements, normative concepts, policies and preferences have yet to be considered as first-class abstractions in Web-based multiagent systems. Towards this end, this paper motivates the need for alignment and joint research across the Multiagent Systems, Semantic Web, and WoT communities, introduces a conceptual framework for governance of autonomous agents on the Web, and identifies several research challenges and opportunities.
翻译:自主代理商的研究在多试剂系统和语义网络社区中有着悠久的传统,其应用范围从业务流程自动化到个人助理等,最近, " 东西网 " (WoT)是 " 东西网 " (IoT)的延伸,以网络标准表达元数据,其社区为推进自主代理商研究议程提供了进一步的动力。虽然在规范、政策和偏好方面有代表性和推理性,但对于确保自主代理商以符合利益攸关方要求的方式行事至关重要,但规范性概念、政策和偏好尚未被视为基于网络的多试剂系统中的第一等抽象因素。为此,本文提出需要在多试剂系统、Semantic网站和WoT社区之间进行统一和联合研究,为网上自主代理商的治理提出一个概念框架,并找出若干研究挑战和机遇。