An Agent Coordination Perspective on Software Ontologies with Knowledge Grid

A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design

In large software systems the identification and proper management of interdependencies among the pieces of a system becomes a central concern. Nevertheless, most traditional programming languages and tools focus on representing components, leaving the description and management of interdependencies among components implicit, or distributed among the components. This paper identifies a number o...

An Agent-Based Simulation Perspective for Learning/Merging Ontologies

Coordination in Software Agent Systems

The objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of coordination in multi-agent systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the coordination literature ; rather, it highlights the necessity for coordination in agent systems and overviews briefly various coordination techniques. It critiques these techniques and presents some conclusions and challenges which we ...

Knowledge-based Multi-agent Coordination

In many domains, intelligent agents must coordinate their activities in order for them to be successful both individually and collectively. Over the last ten years, research in distributed arti cial intelligence has emphasized building knowledge-lean systems, where coordination emerges either from simple rules of behavior or from a deep understanding of general coordination strategies. In this ...

Using Ontologies for Knowledge Management: An Information Systems Perspective

Knowledge management research focuses on the development of concepts, methods, and tools supporting the management of human knowledge. The main objective of this paper is to survey some of the basic concepts that have been used in computer science for the representation of knowledge and summarize some of their advantages and drawbacks. A secondary objective is to relate these techniques to info...