The society of mind
A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Logical foundations of artificial intelligence
Logical foundations of artificial intelligence
CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
The nature of statistical learning theory
The nature of statistical learning theory
Algebraic translations, correctness and algebraic compiler construction
AMiLP '95 Proceedings of the first international AMAST workshop on Algebraic methods in language processing
Machine Learning - Special issue on applications of machine learning and the knowledge discovery process
Making large-scale support vector machine learning practical
Advances in kernel methods
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Ontologies for integrating engineering applications
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
The Origins of Ontologies and Communication Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Conceptual Basis for Mediation Services
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Derivation of Glue Code for Agent Interoperation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Transductive Inference for Text Classification using Support Vector Machines
ICML '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Evaluation in Information Retrieval
ESSIR '00 Proceedings of the Third European Summer-School on Lectures on Information Retrieval-Revised Lectures
PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
An introduction to description logics
The description logic handbook
Learning to Share Meaning in a Multi-Agent System
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Ontology negotiation between intelligent information agents
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Ontology Evolution: Not the Same as Schema Evolution
Knowledge and Information Systems
Ontological Feedback in Multiagent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Domain Independent Learning of Ontology Mappings
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Progressive ontology alignment for meaning coordination: an information-theoretic foundation
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Balancing ontological and operational factors in refining multiagent neighborhoods
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Semiotic schemas: a framework for grounding language in action and perception
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on connecting language to the world
ANEMONE: an effective minimal ontology negotiation environment
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Ontology negotiation: goals, requirements and implementation
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
What are syndication feeds
Strategies for Ontology Negotiation: Finding the Right Level of Generality
Agent Communication II
FCA-MERGE: bottom-up merging of ontologies
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
On the cost of agent-awareness for negotiation services
AOIS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III
The physical symbol grounding problem
Cognitive Systems Research
Formal ontologies for communicating agents
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
Dynamic selection of ontological alignments: a space reduction mechanism
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
Deciding agent orientation on ontology mappings
ISWC'10 Proceedings of the 9th international semantic web conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
LACL'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Logical aspects of computational linguistics
Using ontology modularization for efficient negotiation over ontology correspondences in MAS
ArgMAS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Data modelling and ontological semantics
International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies
Formal ontologies for communicating agents
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
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In open heterogeneous multi-agent systems, communication is hampered by lack of common ontologies. Ontologies may differ in naming conventions, granularity and scope. In such an environment, the agents must possess the right conversational skills to effectively exchange information even when the speaker's ontology is only approximately translatable to the hearer's ontology. Furthermore, the agents must be able to autonomously establish an ontology translation by exchanging parts of their ontologies. In this paper, we propose a layered communication protocol in which the agents gradually build towards a semantically integrated system by establishing minimal and effective common ontologies. We tested our system, called ANEMONE, on a number of heterogeneous news agents. We show how these agents successfully exchange information on news articles, despite initial difficulties caused by heterogeneous ontologies.