Augmenting agent knowledge bases with OWL ontologies

The use of software agents, viewed as conditioned sets of automatic functions, has become a common and important tool in modern software engineering. Intelligent software agents, are agents that contain some model of the environment that includes a representation of goals desirable to the agent, and that are able to reason about the actual situation and determine some appropriate course of action to realize the agent's goals. The model of the environment is also referred to as a knowledge base.