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In this contribution we extend an ontology for modelling agents and their interactions, called Ontology for Agents, Systems, and Integration of Services (in short, OASIS), with conditionals and ontological smart contracts (in short, OSCs). OSCs are ontological representations of smart contracts that permit to establish responsibilities and authorizations among agents and set agreements, whereas conditionals allow one to restrict and limit agent interactions, define activation mechanisms that trigger agent actions, and define constraints and contract terms on OSCs. Conditionals and OSCs, as defined in OASIS, are applied to extend with ontological capabilities digital public ledgers such as the blockchain and the smart contracts implemented on it. We will also sketch the architecture of a framework based on the OASIS definition of OSCs that exploits the Ethereum platform and the Interplanetary File System.
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The smart contract is compliant with the non-fungible token standard ERC721 and is available in the Ethereum main network at the address 0x36194ab80f7649572cab9ec524950df32f638b08. A Java API to publish and retrieve OSC is available at https://github.com/dfsantamaria/CLARA.
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Cantone, D., Longo, C.F., Nicolosi Asmundo, M., Santamaria, D.F., Santoro, C. (2022). Ontological Smart Contracts in OASIS: Ontology for Agents, Systems, and Integration of Services. In: Camacho, D., Rosaci, D., Sarné, G.M.L., Versaci, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV. IDC 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96627-0_22
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