Title :
Visual Tracing of Automatic Ontology Merging
Author :
Eller, Martin ; Schiemann, Bernhard
Author_Institution :
CERN, Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., Geneva
Abstract :
Modern distributed systems frequently use autonomous software agents that use ontologies for communication. If each agent owns an ontology as knowledge base and these ontologies change over time, every communication attempt requires merge and revision processes. We discuss visualization possibilities to assist agent developers and researches in understanding these merge and revision processes. In an example we show how these possibilities can help to analyze and explain merging in a complex multi agent system.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; automatic ontology merging; autonomous software agents; complex multi agent system; modern distributed systems; visual tracing; Artificial intelligence; Competitive intelligence; Intelligent agent; Knowledge representation; Logic; Merging; Ontologies; Protocols; Software agents; Visualization; Multi Agent Sysems; Ontology merging; Visual trace; mergin algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2008. CISIS 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3109-0
DOI :
10.1109/CISIS.2008.145
