The development of ontology driven multi-agent systems: a case study in the financial services domain

  • Authors:

  • Anjalee Sujanani;Pradeep Ray;N. Paramesh;Ramprasad Bhar

  • Affiliations:

  • University of New South Wales, Australia;University of New South Wales, Australia;University of New South Wales, Australia;University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • BSN '05 Proceedings of the IEEE EEE05 international workshop on Business services networks
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper details the processes undertaken to create an application utilising ontologies, for financial domain end-users. It describes our approach and experiences in developing an ontology-based tool that facilitates user and agent interaction within the domain of financial services. To date, agent models have predominantly been developed to analyse financial markets. Most of the agents in these models have their knowledge specified through low level programming. We propose an alternative approach where domain knowledge is decoupled from agents through the use of ontologies. Agents sharing a financial ontology are able to communicate within the domain without possessing the same initial knowledge set. This approach contributes towards the building of semantically aware intelligence services, utilising ontologies rather than low level programming to dictate the characteristics of domains of utilisation and experimentation.