An Ontology-Based Approach for Multi-Agent Systems Engineering
Автор: Souleymane Koussoube, Armel Ayimdji, Laure Pauline Fotso
Журнал: International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS) @ijmecs
Статья в выпуске: 1 vol.5, 2013 года.
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This paper presents OBAMAS (Ontology-Based Approach for Multi-Agent Systems engineering), an ontology-based contribution to Agent Oriented Software Engineering. We propose a formal process for agentification, starting with an analysis phase which consists of the construction of three formal ontologies (a domain ontology, an ontology of functionalities, and an ontology of multi-agents systems) and their alignment to merge in a single one. The second step, which is a design phase, consists of the operationalization of the single ontology in order to infer in a more formal way the agents of the system. A case study is introduced to illustrate OBAMAS and to show its use and effectiveness in a real application, a distance learning system.
Multi-agent system, Ontology, Ontology alignment, Operationalization, Description logics
Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/15014513
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