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 (2026)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2026

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc

Pages Range: 10-14

Conference Proceedings Title: WWW Companion 2026 - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026

Event location: Dubai AE

ISBN: 9798400723087

DOI: 10.1145/3774905.3795076

Abstract

In our 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.

Authors with CRIS profile

Andreas Harth Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Technische Informationssysteme Thomas Wehr Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Technische Informationssysteme

Involved external institutions

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU) AT Austria (AT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Polleres, A., Bauer, F., Dobriy, D., Käfer, T., Kubelka, L., Harth, A., & Wehr, T. (2026). On the Historic Roots of Agentic AI in Semantic Web Services. In WWW Companion 2026 - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (pp. 10-14). Dubai, AE: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

MLA:

Polleres, Axel, et al. "On the Historic Roots of Agentic AI in Semantic Web Services." Proceedings of the 35th ACM Web Conference, WWW Companion 2026, Dubai Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2026. 10-14.

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