Bridging BDI Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web Through the Triples-to-Beliefs-to-Triples Paradigm

Carmelo Longo, Rocco Paolillo, Misael Mongiovì, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Poggi, Michele Geremia Ceriani, Antonio Zinilli, Giusy Tuccari, Corrado Santoro

2025

Abstract

Well-established agent engineering frameworks from the state-of-the-art, due to their outdated designs, are not thought to work in the perspective of a shared semantics, nor do they provide an agent modeling language and environment that integrates seamlessly with them. This is especially challenging in dynamic, distributed environments where new concepts, data sources, and agents can emerge at runtime, potentially leading to semantic conflicts or inconsistencies. This paper proposes the novel paradigm Triples-to-Beliefs-to-Triples (T2B2T), which is being ontologically described, enabling multi-agent systems with seamless and consistent integration with the Semantic Web. In order to validate the approach, this paper proposes also a framework called SEMAS implementing the T2B2T paradigm, which provides a bridge between the mental attitudes Beliefs-Desire-Intentions (BDI) and triples describing a domain with an abstraction over the SPARQL language that feeds the inference process of agents. This enables more sophisticated forms of reasoning in the closed-world assumption, by supporting predicates without any limitation on arity and compositional structures, allowing also the employment of decentralized functions for the dynamic generation of new triples not included in the origin ontologies. As a case-study, SEMAS was employed on decision-making applied to academic mobility with real data coming from the SCOPUS database, demonstrating how the generated inferences can be tailored to specific conditions of individual agents, and how new triples can be inferred to capture the impact of agents’ decisions on the evolution of the knowledge domain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Longo C., Paolillo R., Mongiovì M., Nuzzolese A., Poggi F., Ceriani M., Zinilli A., Tuccari G. and Santoro C. (2025). Bridging BDI Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web Through the Triples-to-Beliefs-to-Triples Paradigm. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST; ISBN 978-989-758-772-6, SciTePress, pages 327-334. DOI: 10.5220/0013668800003985

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist25,
author={Carmelo Longo and Rocco Paolillo and Misael Mongiovì and Andrea Nuzzolese and Francesco Poggi and Michele Ceriani and Antonio Zinilli and Giusy Tuccari and Corrado Santoro},
title={Bridging BDI Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web Through the Triples-to-Beliefs-to-Triples Paradigm},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST},
year={2025},
pages={327-334},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013668800003985},
isbn={978-989-758-772-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST
TI - Bridging BDI Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web Through the Triples-to-Beliefs-to-Triples Paradigm
SN - 978-989-758-772-6
AU - Longo C.
AU - Paolillo R.
AU - Mongiovì M.
AU - Nuzzolese A.
AU - Poggi F.
AU - Ceriani M.
AU - Zinilli A.
AU - Tuccari G.
AU - Santoro C.
PY - 2025
SP - 327
EP - 334
DO - 10.5220/0013668800003985
PB - SciTePress