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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"

During this process the PIA performs
the Preparing MRS function. Let us now discuss in some detail agents and their
interactions. Before we proceed let us note that we omit a special situation when
the system is initialized for the very first time and does not have any data stored in
the Jena repository. While this situation requires agents started in a specific order,
since it is only a one-time event it is not worthy of extra attention. We therefore as-
Ut l z ng Semant c Web and Software Agents n a Travel Support System
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sume that there is already data stored in the system and focus on interactions taking
place in a working system.
The WA interfaces with Web sites, mapping XML- or HTML-demarcated data
into RDF triples describing travel objects (according to the ontology used in our
system [Gawinecki, Gordon, Nguyen, Paprzycki, & Szymczak, 2005; Gawinecki,
Gordon, & Paprzycki, et al., 2005; Gordon, Kowalski, et al., 2005]).


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