OWL-based description for agent

This paper presents a detailed formal specification of agents and their properties and abilities, based on the Web Ontology Language (OWL). It allows an agent to be specified entirely using standard mark-up languages from the Semantic Web community, namely RDF, RDF Schema and OWL. The basic agent components are identified and their implementation using ontology development tools is described. The description improves consistency, interoperability and maintainability of agent program. Therefore, the design errors in the early development stages could be efficiently detected and avoided.