Adapting Communication Vocabularies using Shared Ontologies

Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Bologna

计算机科学;社会科学（总论）

Heiner Stuckenschmidt ; Ingo J. Timm

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-66/oas02-3.pdf
PID  :  18698

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In has been argued that ontologies play a key role in multi- agent communication because they provide and define a shared vocabulary to be used in the course of communi- cation. In real-life scenarios, however, the situation where two agents completely share a vocabulary is rather an ex- ception. More often, each agent uses its own vocabulary specified in a private ontology that is not known by other agents. In this paper we propose a solution to this prob- lem for the situation, where agents share at least parts of their vocabulary. We argue that the assumption of a par- tially shared vocabulary is valid and sketch an approach for re-formulating terms from the private part of an agent’s on- tology into a shared part thus enabling other agents to un- derstand them. We further describe how the approach can be implemented using existing technology and proof the cor- rectness of the re-formulation with respect to the semantics of the ontology-language DAML+OIL.