OWLPref: A Declarative Representation of Preferences for the Semantic Web

• Leonardo Ayres UNIFOR
• Vasco Furtado UNIFOR

Abstract

Preference information filtering is a required feature of multiagent systems if they want access a database. However, few studies have paid attention to create a generic representation of preference for agent consumption. In this paper, we describe our proposal for representing preferences in a declarative, domain-independent and machine-interpretable way in OWL. The OWLPref aims at being used for knowledge sharing between agents allowing the representation of partial order between attributes classes and attributes-values. In the article, we also describe the API that translates OWLPref in SPARQL queries. We exemplify the use of the ontology and of the API in the development of multiagent application in the semantic web context.

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