Ontology-based agent modeling — a formal methodology to incorporate a domain ontology in a multi-agent system

Author

Georgoudakis, M. ; Alexakos, C. ; Kalogeras, A. ; Gialelis, J. ; Koubias, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Patras Univ., Patras

fYear

2008

fDate

21-23 May 2008

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

374

Abstract

The introduction of semantics via ontologies in the industrial environment combined with autonomous agents for the decentralization of production processes has drawn a lot of attention. The common denominator in all proposals attempting to combine semantics and intelligent agent was the semantic gap between them which, at best, was attempted to be bridged with an auxiliary ontology. In this paper we go a step beyond to addressing this problem, by proposing a methodology that could considerably leverage the actual implementation of the multi-agent system.

Keywords

manufacturing processes; manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; autonomous intelligent agent; auxiliary ontology; complex manufacturing system; decentralized production process; formal design methodology; formal methodology; industrial environment; information- processing methodology; manufacturing process; multiagent system; ontology-based agent modeling; Enterprise resource planning; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Multiagent systems; OWL; Ontologies; Production; Scheduling; Supply chain management; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems, 2008. WFCS 2008. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2349-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2350-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.2008.4638721

Filename

4638721