A Decade in Hindsight: The Missing Bridge Between Multi-Agent Systems and the World Wide Web

Andrei Ciortea; Simon Mayer; Fabien Gandon; Olivier Boissier; Alessandro Ricci; Antoine Zimmermann

A Decade in Hindsight: The Missing Bridge Between Multi-Agent Systems and the World Wide Web

Andrei Ciortea ^{1, 2} Simon Mayer ^{1, 3} Fabien Gandon ² Olivier Boissier ^{4, 5, 6} Alessandro Ricci ⁷ Antoine Zimmermann ^{4, 5, 6}

1 HSG - University of St.Gallen

2 WIMMICS - Web-Instrumented Man-Machine Interactions, Communities and Semantics

CRISAM - Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée , Laboratoire I3S - SPARKS - Scalable and Pervasive softwARe and Knowledge Systems

3 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich]

4 Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne

5 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien [Saint Etienne]

6 FAYOL-ENSMSE - Institut Henri Fayol

7 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

Abstract : The World Wide Web has evolved drastically over the past decade – and the proliferation of Web APIs has turned it into the middle- ware of choice for most distributed systems. The recent focus on hypermedia-driven APIs together with initiatives such as the Web of Things and Linked Data are now promoting and advancing the development of a new generation of dynamic , open , and long-lived systems on the Web. These systems require agent-based solutions to the point that Web researchers have started to build autonomous systems on their own. It is thus both timely and necessary to in- vestigate and align the latest developments in Web research and multi-agent systems (MAS) research. In this paper, we analyze in hindsight the factors that hindered the widespread acceptance of early Web-based MAS. We argue that the answer lies equally in a lack of practical use cases as well as the premature development and alignment of Web and agent technologies. We then present our vision for a new generation of autonomous systems on the Web, which we call hypermedia MAS , together with the research opportunities and challenges they bring.

Keywords : Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems Web of Things Semantic Web

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Computer Science [cs] / Modeling and Simulation

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