The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
On Finding Needles in WWW Haystacks
AI '97 Proceedings of the 10th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Example-Based Frame Mapping for Heterogeneous Information Agents
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
CTM: an example-based translation aid system
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 4
Reconciling ontological differences by assistant agents
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In order to function effectively, agents, whether human or software, must be able to communicate and interact through common understandings and compatible conceptualisations. In a multicultural world, ontological differences are a fundamental obstacle that must be overcome before inter-cultural communication can occur. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issues faced by agents operating in large-scale multi-cultural environments and to argue for systems that are tolerant of heterogeneity, illustrating the discussion with a running example of researching and comparing university web sites as a realistic scenario representative of many current knowledge management tasks that would benefit from agent assistance. We then discuss the efforts of the Intelligent Agent Laboratory toward designing such tolerant systems, giving a detailed presentation of the results of several implementations.