Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tamma, Valentina (Editor), Cranefield, Stephen (Editor), Finin, Timothy W. (Editor), Willmott, Steven (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Computer science.; Computer organization.; Software engineering.; Computer programming.; Philosophy, general.; Computer Science, general.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.

There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies for multi-agent system app- cations. On the one hand, the agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, loosely-coupled, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goa...

Table of Contents:

• Ontologies for Interaction Protocols
• On the Impact of Ontological Commitment
• Agent to Agent Talk: “Nobody There?” Supporting Agents Linguistic Communication
• Ontology Translation by Ontology Merging and Automated Reasoning
• Collaborative Understanding of Distributed Ontologies in a Multiagent Framework: Experiments on Operational Issues
• Reconciling Implicit and Evolving Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability
• Query Processing in Ontology-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Message Content Ontologies
• Incorporating Complex Mathematical Relations in Web-Portable Domain Ontologies
• The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing
• A UML Ontology and Derived Content Language for a Travel Booking Scenario
• Some Experiences with the Use of Ontologies in Deliberative Agents
• Location-Mediated Agent Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing
• An Ontology for Agent-Based Monitoring of Fulfillment Processes.