Research Article
OntoTrader: An Ontological Web Trading Agent Approach for Environmental Information Retrieval
Table 1
A comparative view of some environmental management system architectures.
| System | Trading | Ontologies | User agent | Technology | Application domain |
| InfoSleuth | No | Yes | Yes | XML/RDF, KQML, and OKBC | Water resources | EDEN-IW | No | Yes | Yes | JADE, DAML-OIL | Water resources | NZDIS | No | No | Yes | CORBA/OQL, MOF | Environmental data | FSEP | No | No | No | JACK | Meteorology | MAGIC | No | No | Yes | FIPA-ACL, CORBA | Water treatments | DIAMON | No | No | Yes | Java/C++, FIPA-ACL | Water treatments | BUSTER | Yes | Yes | No | OIL, FIPA-OS | Geographical information |
| SOLERES | Yes | Yes | Yes | JADE, OWL, SPARQL, and UML | Ecology |
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