Semantic resolution for E-Commerce

Author

Yun Pang ; Zou, Youyong ; Luan, Xiaocheng ; Ivezic, Nenad ; Gruninger, Michael ; Jones, Albert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA

Volume

14

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

230

Abstract

We describe a research project on resolving semantic differences for multi-agent systems (MAS) in electronic commerce. The approach can be characterized as follows: (1) agents in a MAS may have their own specific ontologies defined on top of a shared base ontology; (2) concepts in these ontologies are represented as frame-like structures based on DAML+OIL language; (3) the semantic differences between agents are resolved at runtime through inter-agent communication; and (4) the resolution is viewed as an abductive inference process, and thus necessarily involves approximate reasoning.

Keywords

electronic commerce; inference mechanisms; multi-agent systems; E-commerce; abductive inference process; approximate reasoning; frame-like structures; inter-agent communication; multi-agent systems; semantic differences; semantic resolution; shared base ontology; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer aided manufacturing; Consumer electronics; Microstrip; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Runtime; Software agents; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Congress, 2002 Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World

Print_ISBN

1-889335-18-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAC.2002.1049445

Filename

1049445