A multi-layered agent ontology system for resource inventory

Nowadays, worldwide public utility services providers feel the necessity of new flexible and scalable solutions aimed at managing their distribution networks and services. This is fundamentally due to the continuously technological evolution of distribution network infrastructures that impacts deeply on the software in charge of handling the services supply chain management. The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative system aimed at defining a new approach to resource inventory. This approach is designed both to reduce the influence of infrastructure evolution and to enable value-added services performed by autonomous intelligent agents. Based on the integration of semantic web technologies and agents paradigm, the systempsilas mission is to define a new ontology-based model for resource inventory. Moreover, the system defines a new behavioral model enabling software agents to effectively react to the network environment in which they are embedded.