Debating over heterogeneous descriptions

  • Authors:
  • Maxime Morge;Jean-Christophe Routier

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3 I-56127 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: morge@di.unipi.it;Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. E-mail: routier@lifl.fr

  • Venue:
  • Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A fundamental interoperability problem is caused by the semantic heterogeneity of agents'ontologies in open multi-agent systems. In this paper, we propose a formal framework for agents debating over heterogeneous terminologies. For this purpose, we propose an argumentation-based representation framework to manage conflicting descriptions. Moreover, we propose a model for the reasoning of agents where they justify the description to which they commit and take into account the description of their interlocutors. Finally, we provide a dialectical system allowing agents to participate in a dialogue in order to reach an agreement over heterogeneous descriptions.