On dynamically generated ontology translators in agent communication

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 587-607

  Van Eijk, Rogier M ^a   De Boer, Frank S ^a   Van Der Hoek, Wiebe ^a   Meyer, John Jules Ch ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LINGUISTICS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION; DYNAMICALLY GENERATED ONTOLOGY TRANSLATORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035340818     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.1025     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Antoniou G, Kehagias A. A note on the refinement of ontologies. Int J Intell Syst 2000;15(7):623-632.
2. Bergstra JA, Klop JW. Process algebra for synchronous communication. Inf Contr 1984;60:109-137.
3. de Boer FS, van Eijk RM, van der Hoek W, Meyer J-JCh. Failure semantics for the exchange of information in multi-agent systems. In: Palamidessi C, editor. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2000). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 2000. Vol 1877, p 214-228.
4. Brazier F, Dunin-Keplicz B, Jennings N, Treur J. Formal specification of multi-agent systems: a real-world case. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'95). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 1995. p 25-32.
5. Chandrasekaran B, Josephson JR, Benjamins VR. What are ontologies and why do we need them? IEEE Intell Syst 1999;14(1):20-26.
6. Chen PP. The entity-relationship model - toward a unified view of data. ACM Trans Database Syst 1976;1(1):9-36.
7. Craig W. Three uses of the herbrand-gentzen theory in relating model theory and proof theory. J Symbolic Logic 1957;22:269-285.
8. van Eijk RM, de Boer FS, van der Hoek W, Meyer J-JCh. Systems of communicating agents. In: Prade H, editor. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons; 1998. p 293-297.
9. Flach PA, Kakas AC, editors. Abduction and induction: Essays on their relation and integration. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic; 2000.
10. Gärdenfors P. Knowledge in flux: Modelling the dynamics of epistemic states. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books, MIT; 1988.
11. Genesereth MR, Fikes RE. Knowledge Interchange Format, Version 3.0 Reference Manual. Technical Report Logic-92-1, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 1992.
12. Giunchiglia F, Serafini L. Multilanguage hierarchical logics (or: How we can do without modal logics). Artif Intell 1994;64:29-70.
13. Gruber TR. Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing. In: Guarino N, Poli R, editors. Formal ontology in conceptual analysis and knowledge representation. Dordrecht/Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic; 1993.
14. Gruber TR. A translation approach to portable ontology specifications. Knowledge Acquisition 1993;5(2): 199-220.
15. Hoare CAR. Communicating sequential processes. Commun ACM 1978;21(8): 666-667.
16. Miller GA. Wordnet: An online lexical database. Int J Lexicography 1990;3(4): 235-312.
17. Noriega P, Sierra C. Towards layered dialogical agents. In: Müller JP, Wooldridge M, Jennings NR, editors. Intelligent agents III - Agent theories, architectures, and languages (ATAL'96). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag; 1997. Vol 1193, p 173-188.
18. Pitt J, Mamdani A. Some remarks on the semantics of Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) agent communication language. Autonomous Agents Multi-Agent Syst 1999;2(4):333-356.
19. Quine WVO. On what there is. In: From a logical point of view. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press; 1948.
20. Saraswat VA, Rinard M. Concurrent constraint programming. In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'90), 1990, p 232-245.
21. Singh N, Tawakol O, Genesereth M. A name-space context graph for multi-context, multi-agent systems. In: Proceedings of the 1995 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium, Boston, MA, 1995.
22. Steels L. The origins of ontologies and communication conventions in multi-agent systems. Autonomous Agents Multi-Agent Syst 1998;1(2):169-194.
23. Stoughton A. Fully abstract models of programming languages. Research Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. London: Pitman; 1988.