Adding meaning negotiation skills in multiagent systems

Author

De Souza, Jairo Francisco ; Siqueira, Sean Wolfgand Matsui ; Melo, Rubens Nascimento

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Fed. Univ. of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

2009

Firstpage

663

Lastpage

667

Abstract

In order to perform its tasks on the semantic web, software agents must be able to communicate with other agents using domain ontologies, even when considering different ontologies. Thus, it´s necessary to address the semantic interoperability issue to enable agents to recognize common concepts and misunderstandings. This work proposes the use of negotiation concepts in business scenarios for addressing concept compatibilization problems in communication between software agents. Negotiation techniques are suitable in this context by providing a formal communication protocol useful for reaching conceptualization consensus. An architecture is proposed, with modules that encapsulate these negotiation concepts.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; software agents; conceptualization consensus; domain ontologies; formal communication protocol; meaning negotiation skills; multiagent systems; semantic interoperability issue; semantic web; software agents; Computer architecture; Context; Informatics; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Protocols; Semantic Web; Service oriented architecture; Software agents; Vocabulary; agent; meaning negotiation; semantic web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, 2009. ICIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4754-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4738-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICISYS.2009.5357694

Filename

5357694