Semantically federating multi-agent organizations

  • Authors:

  • Riza Cenk Erdur;Oguz Dikenelli;Inanç Seylan;Önder Gürcan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We believe that successful co-operation between multi-agent systems providing services in a specific domain can be realized by constructing an infrastructure that supports the semantic interoperability between them. In this paper , we introduce a conceptual architecture for the semantic interoperability of multi-agent systems in the large-scale. The most important element of the proposed conceptual architecture is the federation. A federation established for a particular domain specifies the common characteristics of multi-agent systems in that domain. Hence, a special ontology is required at the federation level for defining the common characteristics of each multi-agent system in a particular domain as its own meta-knowledge. This meta-knowledge is then used in the semantic discovery of the multi-agent systems with which to co-operate. Since different multi-agent systems may use different ontologies, an ontology translation service is also defined at the federation level.