An Agent Intentional Structure based on Cooperation Ontology

Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Bologna

计算机科学;社会科学（总论）

Walid Chainbi

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-66/oas02-14.pdf
PID  :  18680

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

If multi-agent systems are to become widely accepted as a basisfor large scale applications, adequate agent concepts will beessential. To address this issue, we show in this paper that agentsneed to have communication concepts and organization concepts.We argue that instead of the usual approach of starting from a setof intentional states, the intentional structure should be deduced interms of interaction. To this end, we come up with ontologiesrelated to communication and organization. Unlike most previouswork, the presented study shows a new way to combine agent andontology technologies. Indeed, ontologies have establishedthemselves as a powerful tool to enable knowledge sharing, and agrowing number of applications have benefited from the use ofontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability amongheterogeneous, distributed systems. Ontologies are used in thispaper as natural arguments to belief-goal-role agents. We illustrate the concepts by the well known prey/predator example.