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  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2005

Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

Birkhäuser

Editors:

  1. Valentina Tamma

    1. Agent Applications, Research and Technology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain

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  2. Stephen Cranefield

    1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  3. Timothy W. Finin

    1. 329 Information Technology and Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

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  4. Steven Willmott

    1. Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

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  • The area of ontologies for agents is novel and despite its relevance for e-commerce and semantic web applications, there are presently few resources addressing this area
  • The book provides an overview of the main theoretical problems as well as real applications translating theory into practice
  • The book aims to bridge the gap between the agent and the ontology community

Part of the book series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing (WSSAT)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Ontologies for Interaction Protocols

    • Stephen Cranefield, Martin Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawski, Peter Hwang
    Pages 1-17

  3. On the Impact of Ontological Commitment

    • Marian H. Nodine, Jerry Fowler
    Pages 19-42

  5. Ontology Translation by Ontology Merging and Automated Reasoning

    • Dejing Dou, Drew McDermott, Peishen Qi
    Pages 73-94

  7. Reconciling Implicit and Evolving Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability

    • Kendall Lister, Maia Hristozova, Leon Sterling
    Pages 121-144

  8. Query Processing in Ontology-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems

    • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Fausto Giunchiglia
    Pages 145-167

  9. Message Content Ontologies

    • Chris van Aart, Bob Wielinga, Guus Schreiber
    Pages 169-200

  10. Incorporating Complex Mathematical Relations in Web-Portable Domain Ontologies

    • Muthukkaruppan Annamalai, Leon Sterling
    Pages 201-231

  11. The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing

    • Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
    Pages 233-258

  12. A UML Ontology and Derived Content Language for a Travel Booking Scenario

    • Stephen Cranefield, Jin Pan, Martin Purvis
    Pages 259-276

  13. Some Experiences with the Use of Ontologies in Deliberative Agents

    • Ian Dickinson, Michael Wooldridge
    Pages 277-298

  14. Location-Mediated Agent Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing

    • Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani
    Pages 299-321

  15. An Ontology for Agent-Based Monitoring of Fulfillment Processes

    • Roland Zimmermann, S. Käs, Robert Butscher, Freimut Bodendorf
    Pages 323-345
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About this book

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 goal. On the other hand, ontologies have established themselves as a powerful tool to enable kno- edge sharing, and a growing number of applications have bene?ted from the use of ontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. In principle ontologies and agents are a match made in heaven, that has failed to happen. What makes a simple piece of software an agent is its ability to communicate in a ”social” environment, to make autonomous decisions, and to be proactive on behalf of its user. Communication ultimately depends on und- standing the goals, preferences, and constraints posed by the user. Autonomy is theabilitytoperformataskwithlittleornouserintervention,whileproactiveness involves acting autonomously with no need for user prompting. Communication, but also autonomy and proactiveness, depend on knowledge. The ability to c- municate depends on understanding the syntax (terms and structure) and the semantics of a language. Ontologies provide the terms used to describe a domain and the semantics associated with them. In addition, ontologies are often comp- mented by some logical rules that constrain the meaning assigned to the terms. These constraints are represented by inference rules that can be used by agents to perform the reasoning on which autonomy and proactiveness are based.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Agent Applications, Research and Technology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain

    Valentina Tamma

  • Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Stephen Cranefield

  • 329 Information Technology and Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

    Timothy W. Finin

  • Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

    Steven Willmott

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