Effective communication in open environments relies on the ability of agents to reach a mutual understanding of the exchanged message by reconciling the vocabulary (ontology) used....
Paul Doran, Terry R. Payne, Valentina A. M. Tamma,...
Communication in heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by the lack of shared ontologies. Ontology negotiation offers an integrated approach that enables agents to gradual...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
: Most of today’s e-marketplaces support a single negotiation protocol. The protocol is usually built into the e-marketplace infrastructure, therefore if a new one is introduced ...
In this paper, we present a heuristic mapping method and a prototype mapping system that support the process of semi-automatic ontology mapping for the purpose of improving semant...
Representation of negotiations in electronic markets and their support are important issues in today's e-commerce research. Whereas most activities are focused on automation ...