Distributed Ontology Development Environment for Multi-agent Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new environment that supports distributed ontology development for multi-agent systems. In our distributed ontol-ogy development environment (Donden), users program agents can build ontologies locally which can be associated to each other. Donden consists ontology browser which is provided for each user and ontology server which is provided for a group of users which want to share ontologies. Ontol-ogy browser helps user to edit ontology and to make links to other user’s ontology by graphi-cal user interface. Ontology server helps users to synthesize ontologies by computing similarity be-tween concepts of ontologies. We also show an-other application of distributed ontology devel-opment which supports distributed engineering information base.