Hypermedia MAS Core Ontology

An entity that is capable of autonomous behavior.

A resource that can be dynamically constructed, shared, and used by agents to support their activities. In a Hypermedia MAS, an artifact exposes and can be accessed through a hypermedia interface (in addition to other possible interfaces, such as a physical interface).

A Hypermedia MAS (HMAS) platform is a system providing a collection of features to support Hypermedia MAS. Common features include support for communication and interaction, runtime environments for agents, artifacts, or organizations, etc.

Examples of hmas:HypermediaMASPlatform include Twitter, Facebook, a JADE node/delpoyment, or a JaCaMo node/delpoyment — all of which provide features that could support Hypermedia MAS & hybrid communities.

An Organization is an entity situated on Agents and Artifacts, and regulated by a regulation system.

Structured data describing a resource through general metadata, domain- and application-specific metadata, and signifiers.

e.g., a Thing Description document, a Hydra document, an Socio-Technical Network platform description, a fipa:AgentDescription

A perceivable sign/cue that can be interpreted meaningfully by an agent to reveal information about a behavior possibility.

A logical container of one or multiple interactions among agents and potentially artifacts. Workspaces can contain any resource in general and in particular agents, artifacts, other workspaces, or platforms. A workspace can be a LDP container and this can be done by multi-typing the container or by multiple inheritance on a Class ex:Workcontainer.