AI RESEARCH
From Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web to Agentic AI: A Unified Narrative of the Web of Agents
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2507.10644v4 Announce Type: replace The Web of Agents (WoA) transforms the document-centric Web into an environment of autonomous agents acting on users' behalf, a vision newly tractable as large language models (LLMs) mature. We argue that across three decades the WoA has undergone a \emph{semantic-effort migration} in chronological order: from platform-side coordination (Multi-Agent Systems, Generation~I), through data-side annotation (Semantic Web, Generation~II), to model-side interpretation (LLM-era, Generation.