RE: Agents and Topic Maps

Hi René,

Take a look at the home page of the SWAP (Semantic Web 
and Peer-to-Peer) project (funded by the European Commision):

        http://swap.semanticweb.org/

It will make use of RDF and not TMs but the concepts
and ideas could be easily applied to TMs.

--Holger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: René Schmitt 
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> Subject: [topicmapmail] Agents and Topic Maps
> 
> 
> I´m quite new with Topic Maps and have following questions:
> 
> What could a software agent do with Topic Maps?
> Concrete, what data would a mobile agent collect, if it saw 
> Topic Maps?
> 
> Most important question:
> Are there existing examples for agent or multiagent systems 
> using Topic
> Maps?
> How does it work exactly? (agent communication)
> 
> I would appreciate any example in detail or links referring to.
> 
> Best Regards
> René Schmitt
> 
> 
> FYI:
> I´m writing a seminar paper about knowledge representation.
> Theme is agents and distributed applications.
> 
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