Automatic ontology mapping for agent communication

Abstract

Agent communication languages provide a standard for agent communication. For the protocol and the language used in the communication, several standards are available. This is not the case for the ontology used in the communication. The ontology depends on the subject of the communication. Since the number of subjects is almost infinite and since the concepts used for a subject can be described by different ontologies, the development of generally accepted standards will take a long time. This lack of standardization, which hampers communication and collaboration between agents, is known as the phinteroperability problem. To overcome the interoperability problem, an approach that enables agents to learn a mapping between their ontologies is proposed