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What is Agency Layer

Chapter 27
Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
Is a layer in our proposed model which has standardized interfaces with the upper and lower layers and contains the activities of a wide variety of software agents.
Published in Chapter:
Semantic Web and Adaptivity: Towards a New Model
Jorge Marx Gómez (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) and Ammar Memari (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch027
Abstract
The chapter aims at proposing a model that gives an abstraction to the functionalities and data involved in adaptive applications for the Semantic Web. As the quantity of provided information on the Web is getting larger, the need for adaptation in software is getting more and more necessary in order to maximize the productivity of individuals, and more issues are emerging that have to be considered in the new generation of hypertext systems. With the advent of Semantic Web, adaptation can be performed autonomously and in runtime, making the whole process of information adapting transparent to the user.
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