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A Preliminary Ontology for Human-Agent Collectives

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Abstract

Human-Agent Collectives (HAC) is an approach involving coalitions of humans and agents working together to exploit their intelligence capabilities to optimize tasks in systems with inherent uncertainty. This paper presents a review of the main features of the HAC approach as well as the possible interactions between the entities that take place in the coalitions of a HAC system. An ontology called ONT4HAC is defined to facilitate the management of actions in HAC scenarios.

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Esmeraldas, 080150, Ecuador

    Pablo Pico-Valencia

  2. University of Granada, 18015, Granada, Spain

    Pablo Pico-Valencia & Juan A. Holgado-Terriza

  3. University of Cauca, Popayán, 190003, Colombia

    Luz M. Sierra Martínez

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  2. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  3. Poznań University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  4. HES-SO Valais Wallis, Sierre, Switzerland

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Pico-Valencia, P., Holgado-Terriza, J.A., Sierra Martínez, L.M. (2019). A Preliminary Ontology for Human-Agent Collectives. In: De La Prieta, F., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24299-2_15

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