Semantically Federating Multi-agent Organizations

We believe that successful co-operation between multi-agent systems providing services in a specific domain can be realized by constructing an infrastructure that supports the semantic interoperability between them. In this paper1 , we introduce a conceptual architecture for the semantic interoperability of multi-agent systems in the large-scale. The most important element of the proposed conceptual architecture is the federation. A federation established for a particular domain specifies the common characteristics of multi-agent systems in that domain. Hence, a special ontology is required at the federation level for defining the common characteristics of each multi-agent system in a particular domain as its own meta-knowledge. This meta-knowledge is then used in the semantic discovery of the multi-agent systems with which to cooperate. Since different multi-agent systems may use different ontologies, an ontology translation service is also defined at the federation level.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ESAW
• Authors: Riza Cenk Erdur, Oguz Dikenelli, Inanç Seylan, Önder Gürcan
• Keywords: Conceptual Architecture, ESAW 2004, Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Interoperability