Bargaining theory with applications
Bargaining theory with applications
Agent interoperation across multiagent system boundaries
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
A formal approach to protocols and strategies for (legal) negotiation
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
IEEE Intelligent Systems
A Semantic Web Primer
Propositional defeasible logic has linear complexity
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
IAT '05 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Certified reputation: how an agent can trust a stranger
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
DR-BROKERING: A semantic brokering system
Knowledge-Based Systems
A modal and deontic defeasible reasoning system for modelling policies and multi-agent systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A simultaneous multi-attribute soft-bargaining design for bilateral contracts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
RuleML '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
Designing multi-agent systems: a framework and application
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Applying hybrid case-based reasoning in agent-based negotiations for supply chain management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A Guide to the Basic Logic Dialect for Rule Interchange on the Web
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A contract agreement policy-based workflow methodology for agents interacting in the semantic web
RuleML'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Semantic web rules
Automatic price negotiation on the web: An agent-based web application using fuzzy expert system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
EMERALD: a multi-agent system for knowledge-based reasoning interoperability in the semantic web
SETN'10 Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic conference on Artificial Intelligence: theories, models and applications
An ontological intelligent agent platform to establish an ecological virtual enterprise
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Prova: rule-based java scripting for distributed web applications
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
The OO jDREW reference implementation of RuleML
RuleML'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
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The ultimate vision of the Semantic Web (SW) is to provide users with the capability of delegating complex tasks to intelligent agents. The latter, acting in an interoperable and information-rich Web environment, will efficiently satisfy their users' requests in a variety of real-life applications. Much work has been done on SW information agents for Web-based query answering; a variety of multi-agent platforms and Web language standards has been proposed. However, the platform- and language-bridging interoperation across multi-agent systems has been neglected so far, although it will be vital for large-scale agent deployment and wide-spread adoption of agent technology by human users. This article defines the space of possible interoperation methods for heterogeneous multi-agent systems based on the communication type, namely symmetric or asymmetric, and the MASs status, namely open or closed systems. It presents how heterogeneous multi-agent systems can use one of these methods to interoperate and, eventually, automate collaboration across communities. The method is exemplified with two SW-enabled multi-agent systems, EMERALD and Rule Responder, which assist communities of users based on declarative SW and multi-agent standards such as RDF, OWL, RuleML, and FIPA. This interoperation employs a declarative, knowledge-based approach, which enables information agents to make smart and consistent decisions, relying on high-quality facts and rules. Multi-step interaction use cases between agents from both communities are presented, demonstrating the added value of interoperation.