Communication for Agents with Ontological Reasoning

Communication in heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems is an active area of study in Computer Science. As far as it has been achieved in the last few years, however, to our knowledge there is still little work on integrating ontology-based communication in the semantics of agent programming languages. In this work, we study communication between agents with underlying ontological reasoning. The resulting communication mechanism allows agents to exchange not only factual but also terminological knowledge about an individual domain.