A modular architecture for intelligent agents in the evented web

The growing popularity of public APIs and technologies such as web hooks is changing online services drastically. It is easier now than ever to interconnect services and access them as a third party. The next logical step is to use intelligent agents to provide a better user experience across services, connecting services with smart automatic behaviors or actions. In other words, it is time to start using agents in the so-called Evented Web. For this to happen, agent platforms need to seamlessly integrate external sources such as web services. As a solution, this paper introduces an event-based architecture for agent systems. This architecture has been designed in accordance with the new tendencies in web programming and with a Linked Data approach. The use of Linked Data and a specific vocabulary for events allows a smarter and more complex use of events. Two use cases have been implemented to illustrate the validity and usefulness of the architecture.