Integrating Ontologies with Multi-Agent Systems through CArtAgO Artifacts

Several advantages can be obtained by allowing multi-agent systems to easily access ontologies, for example, in scenarios where agents make their decisions based on the knowledge provided by ontologies. Thus, this paper presents an infrastructure to allow the use of web ontologies in different agent...

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Published in:2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) Vol. 2; pp. 143 - 150
Main Authors: Freitas, Artur, Panisson, Alison R., Hilgert, Lucas, Meneguzzi, Felipe, Vieira, Renata, Bordini, Rafael H.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.12.2015
Subjects:
Agent-Oriented Programming Languages
CArtAgO
Cognition
Computer architecture
Multi-agent systems
Ontologies
Ontology
OWL
Semantics
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Summary:Several advantages can be obtained by allowing multi-agent systems to easily access ontologies, for example, in scenarios where agents make their decisions based on the knowledge provided by ontologies. Thus, this paper presents an infrastructure to allow the use of web ontologies in different agent-oriented platforms. The agents use this infrastructure layer as a tool for storing, accessing and querying domain-specific OWL ontologies. As a result, this layer allows an integration of agent platforms with semantic web data and ontologies. We exemplify in practice how agents, coded in one such platform, can use the proposed access layer to ontological reasoning engines, as well as which features can be obtained from it. The performance of this semantic infrastructure is evaluated and compared against usual knowledge representation in agent programming.
DOI:10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.116