A mechanism for discovering semantic relationships among agent communication protocols

The underlying idea is to get real interoperation among those Information Systems in order to enlarge the benefits that users can get from the Web by increasing machines' processable tasks. Although agent technology and Web Services technology have been developed in separate ways, there exists a recent work (Greenwood and M.Lyell, 2007) which tries to consolidate their approaches into a common specification describing how to seamlessly interconnect FIPA compliant agent systems (FIPA, 2005) with W3C compliant Web Services. The purpose of specifying an infrastructure for integrating these two technologies is to provide a common means of allowing each to discover and invoke instances of the other. Considering the previous approach, in the rest of this paper we will only concentrate on aspects of inter-agent communication. In general, communication among agents is based on the interchange of messages, which in this context are also known as communication acts.