, 2001; Paprzycki, Kalczy?„ski, Fiedorowicz,
Abramowicz, & Cobb, 2001 and references presented there). The situation did not
change much since. A typical example of the state of the art in the area is the European
Union (EU) funded, CRUMPET project. During its funded existence (between
approximately 1999 and 2003) it resulted in a number of publications and apparent
demonstrations, but currently its original Web site is gone and it is really difficult
to assess which of its promises have been truly delivered on.
Summarizing, there exists a large number of sources of inspiration for our work, but
we proceed with development of a system that constitutes a rather unique combination
of agents and the Semantic Web.
System.Description
Before we proceed describing the system let us stress that what we describe in this
chapter is the core of a much larger system that is in various stages of development.
In selecting the material to be presented we have decided first, to focus on the parts
under development that are finished or almost finished. This means that a number of
interesting agents that are to exist in the system in the future and that were proposed
and discussed in Angryk et al.
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