In this respect,
the interactions among the agents are modeled as collaborative interactions, where
the agents in the multi-agent community work together to provide decision support
and knowledge-based explanations of the decision problem domain to the user.
A recent extension of the Semantic Web is the vision of semantic e-business. Singh,
Iyer, et al. (2005) define semantic e-business as ???an approach to managing knowledge
for coordination of e-business processes through the systematic application of
Semantic Web Technologies??? (p. 20). Semantic e-business leverages Semantic Web
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technologies and concepts to support the transparent flow of semantically enriched
information and knowledge and enables collaborative e-business processes within
and across organizational boundaries. In addition, the Semantic Web aids intelligent
agents to organize, store, retrieve, search, and match information and knowledge
for effective collaboration among semantic e-business participants.
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