Towards a satisfactory conversion of messages among agent-based information systems

  • Authors:
  • Idoia Berges;JesúS BermúDez;Alfredo GoñI;Arantza Illarramendi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain;University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain;University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain;University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Over the last years, there has been a change of perspective concerning the management of information systems, since they are no longer isolated and need to communicate with others. However, from a semantic point of view, real communication is difficult to achieve due to the heterogeneity of the systems. We present a proposal which, considering information systems are represented by software agents, provides a framework that favors a semantic communication among them, overcoming the heterogeneity of their agent communication languages. The main components of the framework are a suite of ontologies - conceptualizing communication acts - that will be used for generating the communication conversion, and an Event Calculus interpretation of the communications, which will be used for formalizing the notion of a satisfactory conversion. Moreover, we present a motivating example in order to complete the explanation of the whole picture.