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....as a treelike space of a set of distributed objects that models the Web resources by using XML RDF constructs. The Omega system o#ers a flexible framework for building agent oriented distributed applications on the Web consult section 3 for details. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) [9, 24] may develop into one of the foundations of the Semantic Web by enabling semantic interoperability. RDF is designed for data sharing and processing in an automatically way as well as by humans (see section 2) To assure the Web scalability, independently designed programs especially Web agents ....

....to traditional attributevalue pairs. RDF properties can also signify relationships between resources and therefore an RDF model can be similar to an entity relationship diagram. In object oriented design terminology, resources correspond to objects and properties correspond to instance variables [9, 11, 24]. To facilitate the definition of metadata, RDF is based on classes.A collection of classes, typically designed for a specific purpose or domain, is called a schema [9] Through the sharability of schemas, RDF supports the reusability of metadata definitions. The RDF schemas may themselves be ....

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O. Lassila, R. Swick (eds.), RDF Mode l and Syntax Specification,W3C Recommendation, Boston, 1999: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/

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