The Acronymic Web

16Abr09

Phew. I’ve read all the slides a couple of times. I’ve written my own notes. I now see acronyms everywhere.

I’m revising for Multi Agent Semantic Web Systems. Since there are so many acronyms in this bloody course, and it is a bit hard to get one’s head around all of them, I’ve made a list. Lists are good.

ho-hum:

• MASWS: Multi Agent Semantic Web Systems.
• MAS: Multi Agent System.
• URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. Looks like a URL, but doesn’t have to be addressable (it’s nice if it is, especially if what you retrieve is a representation of the resource).
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator.
• RDF: Resource Description Framework.
• XML: eXtensive Markup Language.
• DC: Dublin Core. Resource description convention originating from the world of curation and libraries.
• N3: A way of expressing RDF statements as triples followed by a period.
• DTD: Document Type Declaration.
• IR: Information Resource. Any resource that can be captured in a message (like a weather report).
• SPARQL: (recursive) SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. There are similarities between RDF and conventional relational databases. SPARQL is to RDF what SQL is to them.
• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation.
• SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol.
• WS: Web Service. A software system designed to support  Machine-To-Machine interaction.
• WSDL: Web Service Definition Language.
• RPC: Remote Procedure Call.
• UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. Repositories where web services are listed in a yellow-page fashion.
• KQML: Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language. “outer” language that defines the format of messages exchanged between agents.
• KIF: Knowledge Interchange Format. Lisp-like notation of First Order Logic, used to define the content of messages exchanged between agents.
• FIPA: Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents. Bringing a robot-war scenario to your world, many agents at a time.
• FIPA-ACL: ditto – Agent Communication Language . Robots will speak this amongst each other while they argue upon the best way to erase the human race. It is nice because it allows for representing commitment. To kill.
• FSM: Finite State Machine.

I’m not done, but i’m going to bed.

:wq

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