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AAMAS
1999
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols
Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...
Mahadevan Venkatraman, Munindar P. Singh
KESAMSTA
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Modeling and Verifying Business Interactions via Commitments and Dialogue Actions
A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of creation and manipulation of social commitments among the agents. Such interactions include B2B ...
Mohamed El-Menshawy, Jamal Bentahar, Rachida Dssou...
AO
2005
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14 years 10 months ago
Modes of concept definition and varieties of vagueness
The paper considers the problem of defining concepts within formal ontologies. A number of distinct modes of definition are identified, which represent alternative viewpoints on t...
Brandon Bennett
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Position paper: ontology construction from online ontologies
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than buildin...
Harith Alani
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology
Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational to the establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalence formalisms between domain speci...
Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius, Albert E. Ko...