Agent for E-Commerce on the Semantic Web

Abstract

The practical use of semantic web must cover all the fields with respect to the current web.

Specially, systematic efforts for electronic commerce framework based on various standards have gone between users concerned in electronic commerce field. Semantic web technology that allows RDF resources description and ontology-based knowledge representation and agents, has been deeply related with electronic commerce framework. This paper examines the role of agents for electronic commerce on the current web and agents for electronic commerce on the semantic web which is observed by the next generation web, and proposes electronic commerce platform that apply semantic web technology.

The practical use of semantic web must cover all the fields with respect to the current web.

Specially, systematic efforts for electronic commerce framework based on various standards have gone between users concerned in electronic commerce field. Semantic web technology that allows RDF resources description and ontology-based knowledge representation and agents, has been deeply related with electronic commerce framework. This paper examines the role of agents for electronic commerce on the current web and agents for electronic commerce on the semantic web which is observed by the next generation web, and proposes electronic commerce platform that apply semantic web technology.