Agents teaching agents to share meaning

  • Authors:
  • Andrew B. Williams;Zijian Ren

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Iowa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa City, IA;University of Iowa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa City, IA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The promise of intelligent agents acting on behalf of users' personalized knowledge sharing needs may be hampered by the insistence that these agents begin with a predefined, common ontology instead of personalized, diverse ontologies. Only until recently have researchers diverged from the last decades common “ontology paradigm” to a paradigm involving agents that can share knowledge using diverse ontologies. This paper describes how we address this agent knowledge sharing problem of how agents deal with diverse ontologies by introducing a methodology and algorithms for multi- agent knowledge sharing and learning. We demonstrate how this approach will enable multi- agent systems to assist groups of people in locating, translating, and sharing knowledge using our Distributed Ontology Gathering Group Integration Environment (DOGGIE) and describe our proof- of- concept experiments. DOGGIE synthesizes agent communication, machine learning, and reasoning for information sharing in the Web domain.