OTAGen: A Tunable Ontology Generator for Benchmarking Ontology-Based Agent Collaboration

On the one hand, agent-based software platforms are commonly used these days, while on the other hand Semantic Web technologies are also maturing. It is obvious that the combination of these two technologies can bring added value through the creation of Semantic Agent-based frameworks. However, it is also known that these Semantic Web technologies, and the reasoning on ontologies in particular, can rapidly become resource intensive. In order to get a clear view on this problem, we have developed OTAGen, a highly tunable tool to generate customized ontologies and corresponding queries. The generated ontologies can then be used to evaluate at design-time the performance of the Semantic Agent-based platform as a function of the number of ontologies, users and queries.