Ample extension points
will be provided, and we refrain from requiring any specific implementation technologies.
Looking at the components currently available, a unified application model based on agent
societies seems to be in reach: The Semantic Web allows us to reason about information by
structuring information appropriately. This provides the basis for ???intelligent??? agents (with
???intelligence??? on a pragmatic hands-on level). Web services introduce the interface for collaboration
among systems. Agents are the natural extension to achieve autonomous systems
(Benjamins, 2003). Currently we face a multitude of ontology languages (Benjamins, Fensel,
& Asunci??n, 1998) and many models and theories to map information to efficient data models
and retrieval algorithms, but these means will only see wide-spread use if they become easy
to communicate to future users (e.g., programmers), based on standard architectures and
easy to integrate into existing systems. Integration still is one of the main problems faced
by current computer science (from the business perspective), but the Web can only remain
successful if it manages to stay commercially interesting (whether by drawing enough people
to it to supply Internet Providers with customers, or by introducing truly successful e-business
models is not that important).
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