Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

I'm about to apply to speak at SemWeb.pro, a conference that takes place in Paris in autumn. It unfortunately mostly is in French, but it's mostly people from the industry and the government who speak. I remember seeing only a handful of researchers... and last year Phil Archer did the

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

I would look at the history of the conventional web client as a parallel to the "semantic web." Not long after Netscape, it was clear that a "personal web crawler" was a possible thing that a person could use to answer some question. Rather than being dependent on InfoSeek or Altavista, you

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

Ah, ’twas always thus, in every field I know. To put it bluntly, that is because much research is about getting papers published, not about moving the field on. Functional programming (I used to be functional): David Turner (he with a brain the size of a planet) said that his application of

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

HI Krzysztof, > this is all about finding the right balance Definitely—but I have the feeling the balance is currently tipped very much to one side (and perhaps not the side that delivers the most urgent components for the SemWeb). > as we also do not want to have tons of 'ideas' > papers

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

As such, it is hard to publish a paper on this at any of the main venues (ISWC / ESWC / …). This discourages working on such themes. Hence, I see much talent and time going to incremental research, which is easy to evaluate well, but not necessarily as ground-breaking. Yes! I could not agree

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: > Hi Juan, > > Seems like we mostly agree—short remarks below. > > > One thing is science. Another is engineering. > > Perhaps we need Semantic Web Engineering conferences then as well! > That's why you have

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

Ruben, One thing is science. Another is engineering. Part of the scientific process is defining an experiment and doing the evaluation. If we don't know the right evaluation metrics (I agree with you that we don't), then that is the current challenge we, as a semantic web scientific community,

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

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Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

On 6 July 2016 at 20:49, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 7/6/16 11:38 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > On 6 July 2016 at 17:22, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >> All, >> >> Smart Agents and Bots are now hot topics across the industry at large. >> >>

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

On 7/6/16 12:38 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: > Hi, > > This is a very important question for our community, > given that smart agents once were an important theme. > Actually, the main difference we could bring with the SemWeb > is that our clients could be decentralized > and actually run on the

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

On 7/6/16 11:38 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > On 6 July 2016 at 17:22, Kingsley Idehen > wrote: > > All, > > Smart Agents and Bots are now hot topics across the industry at large. > > Bearing in mind years of knowledge and

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

Hi, This is a very important question for our community, given that smart agents once were an important theme. Actually, the main difference we could bring with the SemWeb is that our clients could be decentralized and actually run on the client side, in contrast to others. One of the main

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

Hi Kingsley, Not a perfect answer to your question as it is in a very early stage, yet I'm trying to develop an intelligent agent to give you route planning results across transit networks: Linked Connections [1]. By following links and discovering various other data sources, it can take

Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

On 6 July 2016 at 17:22, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > All, > > Smart Agents and Bots are now hot topics across the industry at large. > > Bearing in mind years of knowledge and experience this community has in > regards to Bots and Smart Agents [1], are there any Linked Data

Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

All, Smart Agents and Bots are now hot topics across the industry at large. Bearing in mind years of knowledge and experience this community has in regards to Bots and Smart Agents [1], are there any Linked Data driven Smart Agents out there? Personally, I believe this new wave of interest in