Towards ontological reconciliation for agents

Author

Sterling, Leon ; Lister, Kendall

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

7-9 Nov 2001

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper addresses issues faced by agents operating in large-scale multi-cultural environments. We argue for systems that are tolerant of heterogeneity. The discussion is illustrated with a running example of researching and comparing university web sites, which is a realistic scenario representative of many current knowledge management tasks that would benefit from agent assistance. We discuss efforts of the Intelligent Agent Laboratory toward designing such tolerant systems, giving a detailed presentation of the results of several implementations

Keywords

artificial intelligence; knowledge based systems; multi-agent systems; agent assistance; knowledge management tasks; large-scale multi-cultural environments; ontological reconciliation for agents; university web sites; Computer networks; Computer science; Data processing; Electronic switching systems; Intelligent agent; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Ontologies; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1417-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTAI.2001.974442

Filename

974442