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Ontology-Services to Facilitate Agents’ Interoperability

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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2003)

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Ontology has an important role in Multi-Agent Systems communication once it provides a vocabulary to be used in the communication between agents. It is hard to find out two agents using precisely the same vocabulary. They usually have a heterogeneous private vocabulary defined in their own private ontology. In order to provide help in the conversation among different agents, we are proposing what we call ontology-services to facilitate agents’ interoperability. More specifically, in the context of the work we are doing, we intend to include these ontology-services in the framework of an Electronic Institution. Our ontology-based services will be provided through such an Electronic Institution and will be responsible for providing structural and semantic relationships between different vocabularies, useful advices on how to negotiate specific items, leading to appropriate conversations and making agreements possible.

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  1. LIACC-NIAD&R, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Andreia Malucelli & Eugénio da Costa Oliveira

  2. PUCPR – Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, R. Imaculada Conceição, 1155, 80215-901, Curitiba, PR, Brasil

    Andreia Malucelli

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Malucelli, A., da Costa Oliveira, E. (2003). Ontology-Services to Facilitate Agents’ Interoperability. In: Lee, J., Barley, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_15

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