On the historic roots of Agentic AI in Semantic Web Services. Polleres, A., Bauer, F., Dobriy, D., Käfer, T., Kubelka, L., Harth, A., & Wehr, T. In The ACM Web Conference 2026, 2026. to appear, extended abstract (invited, History of the Web track)
Paper abstract bibtex In this short talk we point out that (1) the Semantic Web vision already provided some of the underlying ideas of today's endeavours around agentic AI, and (2) that abstractions, approaches and methods developed in the Web Services and Semantic Web Services communities can be beneficially applied to agentic AI. At the same time, we argue that looking back to history reveals certain still unresolved challenges.
@inproceedings{poll-etal2026WebConfHoW,
author={Axel Polleres and Frederik Bauer and Daniil Dobriy and Tobias Käfer and Lukas Kubelka and Andreas Harth and Thomas Wehr},
title={{On the historic roots of Agentic AI in Semantic Web Services}},
abstract = {In this short talk we point out that (1) the Semantic Web vision already provided some of the underlying ideas of today's endeavours around agentic AI, and (2) that abstractions, approaches and methods developed in the Web Services and Semantic Web Services communities can be beneficially applied to agentic AI.
At the same time, we argue that looking back to history reveals certain still unresolved challenges.},
note={to appear, extended abstract (invited, History of the Web track)},
year= 2026,
booktitle={The ACM Web Conference 2026},
url = {http://polleres.net/publications/poll-etal2026WebConfHoW.pdf}
}
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