Using Agents to Reach an Ontology Consensus

摘要

We address the problem of agents collaboratively creating a common ontology through consensus methods using human user-created diverse ontologies as their starting point. We evaluate various voting algorithms used by the agents in IDOCS (Intelligent Distributed Ontology Consensus System) for the iterative agreement phase of the consensus process. Iterative agreement enables the agents to reach a consensus on a common ontology. We demonstrated this approach with proof of concept experiments in the genetics research phenotyping domain.