Query Answering Using Ontologies in Agent-based Resource Sharing Environment for Biological Web Information Integrating

Jiann-Jyh Lu, Chun-Nan Hsu
2003 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence  
A variety of biological data is transferred and exchanged in overwhelming volumes on the World Wide Web. How to rapidly capture, utilize and integrate hundreds of biological databases on the Web is one of the most critical issues in bioinformatics. In this paper, we describe our preliminary study to address this issue in an agent-based resource-sharing environment, where we apply the Web agent technology and DAML+OIL ontologies of biological knowledge to enable biologists to make
more » ... ept query. Given a query, the agent coordination service in this environment will search for a set of suitable paths in the ontologies that links the query concept to the goal concept . The Web agents will be launched to extract the data from the target Web resources and transfer the data according to the found path to answer the query. This approach makes the details of querying Web resources transparent to the biologists and allows them to query biological resources on the Web in the terms of their domain knowledge.
dblp:conf/ijcai/LuH03 fatcat:jpekbid44fgopdd2o5e3d27cg4