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What is OASIS-CG

Daniele Francesco Santamaria | Posted on:

Mission 

The mission of the Ontologies for Agents, Systems, and Integration of Services Community Group (OASIS-CG) is to standardize semantic models for representing agents—both human and artificial—their actions, responsibilities, and interactions, following a behavioristic approach. The goal is to enhance interoperability, traceability, and explainability in multi-agent systems and agent-based communication on the Web, leveraging W3C Semantic Web technologies. 

The OASIS ontology draws inspiration from the Theory of Agents, incorporating mentalistic notions to represent multi-agent systems through observable behavior. It provides a semantic framework for describing agents in terms of the actions they can perform, the goals and purposes they pursue, the responsibilities they assume, the knowledge they hold about the world, and their internal and external interactions. Agents are enabled to explicitly declare the set of activities they can execute, the types of data required as input, the conditions under which those activities are triggered, and the expected outputs. 

The ontology also models the assignment and execution of tasks, the constraints and rules that govern agent behavior, and the mechanisms for defining responsibilities, authorizations, and delegations among agents. Furthermore, it includes a conceptualization of processes, procedures, and events that supports the formal modeling of distributed and dynamic systems. 

Publications

The OASIS ontology has been recognized within the scientific community through several peer-reviewed publications, including the following: 

  1. Towards a semantic blockchain: A behaviouristic approach to modelling Ethereum. Bella, Giampaolo and Cantone, Domenico and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. Applied Ontology, 2024, 19(2), pages 143–180. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57008891800&origin=recordpage

  2. A behaviouristic semantic approach to blockchain-based e-commerce. Bella, Giampaolo and Cantone, Domenico and Castiglione, Gianpietro and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. Semantic Web, 2024, 15(5), pages 1863–1914. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57008891800&origin=recordpage

  3. A Behaviouristic Approach to Representing Processes and Procedures in the OASIS 2 Ontology. Bella, Giampaolo and Castiglione, Gianpietro and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3637, 2023. Joint Ontology Workshops 2023, Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of Ontology, JOWO 2023, Sherbrooke, 19-20 July 2023. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85185199907 

  4. The Ontology for Agents, Systems and Integration of Services: recent advancements of OASIS. Bella, Giampaolo and Cantone, Domenico and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 3261, Pages 176 – 1931, September 2022. 23rd Workshop “From Objects to Agents”, WOA 2022, Genova 1-3 September 2022. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85142532775 

  5. Ontological Smart Contracts in OASIS: Ontology for Agents, Systems, and Integration of Services. Cantone, Domenico and Longo, Carmelo Fabio and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco and Santoro, Corrado. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 1026, Pages 237 – 247, 2022. 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2021 Virtual Online, 16-18 September 2021. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130258663 

  6. Blockchains Through Ontologies: The Case Study of the Ethereum ERC721 Standard in OASIS. Bella, Giampaolo and Cantone, Domenico and Longo, Cristiano and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 1026, Pages 249 – 259, 2022. 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2021 Virtual Online, 16-18 September 2021. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130213898 

  7. Semantic Representation as a Key Enabler for Blockchain-Based Commerce. Bella, Giampaolo and Cantone, Domenico and Longo, Cristiano and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 13072 LNCS, Pages 191 – 198, 2021. 18th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2021, Virtual, Online, 21-23 September 2021. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121876562 

  8. Towards an ontology-based framework for a behavior-oriented integration of the IoT. Cantone, Domenico and Longo, Carmelo Fabio and Nicolosi Asmundo, Marianna and Santamaria, Daniele Francesco and Santoro, Corrado. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2404, Pages 119 – 126, 2019. 20th Workshop “From Objects to Agents”, WOA 2019, Parma 26-28 June 2019. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85069696323 

            Scope 

            The Community Group will focus on completing, formalizing, and standardizing the OASIS ontology using OWL 2 and related Semantic Web technologies. It will align OASIS with existing W3C ontologies and standards such as PROV-O, SOSA/SSN, FOAF, SIOC, ORG, and LCC. The scope also includes ensuring compatibility with agent platforms and AI systems, enabling semantic interoperability with process management, service orchestration, and multi-agent coordination frameworks. The Community Group will develop reference use cases, formal axiomatizations, and exemplar data patterns to guide implementation and adoption. 

            Deliverables 

            The primary deliverable of the Working Group will be the OASIS Core Ontology as a W3C Recommendation, providing a formal and reusable model for representing agents, capabilities, tasks, commitments, and interactions. Additional deliverables include alignment modules with external standards, a use case and case study report documenting real-world applications, and a test suite accompanied by RDF examples and reference implementations. 

            Participation 

            Participation in the Working Group is open to researchers and practitioners in semantic technologies, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and process modeling. It also welcomes institutions and organizations interested in contributing to ontology development, producing case studies, developing tools, or testing and validating the models and their applications. 

            Chairs

            Daniele Francesco Santamaria, University of Catania

            Domenico Cantone, University of Catania

            Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania

            Senior Members

            Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania

            Gianpietro Castiglione, University of Catania

            Members

            Chiara Alì, University of Catania

            Laura Brisindi, University of Catania

            Alex Mattia, University of Catania

            Giorgia Leanza, University of Catania

            Giuseppe Mirko Mangano, University of Catania

            Natasha Fragala, University of Catania

            Erika Pennisi, University of Catania

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