2011
EMSS 2011 Proceeding
Agent-Based Simulation Of Electronic Marketplaces With Ontology-Services
Authors: Maria Joćo Viamonte, Nuno Silva, Paulo Maio
Abstract
Agent technology has been successfully applied to the Electronic Commerce domain, but the diversity of the involved actors leads to different conceptualizations of the needs and capabilities, giving rise to semantic incompatibilities between them. It is hard to find two agents using precisely the same vocabulary. They usually have a heterogeneous private vocabulary defined in their own private ontology. In order to provide help in the conversation among different agents, we are proposing what we call ontology-services to facilitate agents? interoperability. More specifically, this work presents a multi-agent market simulator with ontology services. The system includes agents that provide services that allow other agents to communicate with each other in order to reach an agreement, ensuring that both parties are able to understand the terms of negotiation.
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