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Stuckenschmidt, H. and Timm, I. J. (2002) Adaption Communication Vocabularies using Shared Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS). Bologna, Italy.
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Adapting Communication Vocabularies
using Shared Ontologies
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
de Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
heiner@cs.vu.nl
Ingo J. Timm
Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Postfach 10 05 65, D ­ 98684 Ilmenau
Ingo.Timm@tu­ilmenau.de
Abstract 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 real­life 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 re­formulating 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 re­formulation with respect to the semantics of the ontology­language DAML+OIL.
Keywords Ontologies, Multi­Agent Communication, Approximate Reasoning
1. INTRODUCTION An important aspect of multi­agent systems is the com­ munication among di#erent agents, because communication is the basis for cooperation. Ontologies are a technology to support inter­agent communication by providing a definition of the world, an agent can ground his beliefs and actions as well as by providing terms that can be used in commu­ nication [13]. In practice, agent communication based on ontologies still su#ers from many problems. Uschold [19] identifies a number barriers for agent communication that can be separated in language heterogeneity and in termino­ logical heterogeneity. In the ...
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@inproceedings{stuckenschmidt02adaptionCommunication,
  author={Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Ingo J. Timm},
  title={Adaption Communication Vocabularies using Shared Ontologies},
  year={2002},
  month={July},
  day={15-19},
  address={Bologna, Italy},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS)},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/stuckenschmidt02adaptionCommunication.html}
}

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