Exploiting Reusable Knowledge to Enhance Multi-agents Capabilities: Explorations with Data Model and Glossary Repositories

摘要

The main goal of this paper is to explore knowledge reuse in the rapidly evolving area of multi-agent ontology as agents deal with less structured information. There are now numerous examples of "intelligent & knowledgeable agents" within a broadly heterogeneous body of R&D underway to provide standard electronic services and multi-agent solutions. Direction of ontological work is broadly divided by two complementary philosophies - the "semantic web" approach which argues for letting a "hundred ontologies bloom", and traditional E-Commerce approaches that attempt terminological standards. With proper ontologizing mediating agents may be able use local repositories for concept and terminological "Views" of knowledge and make it available for structured activities such as found in E-Commerce. Data model and glossary knowledge sources are analyzed for useful content.