Learning to share meaning in a multi-agent system

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-193

  Williams, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Machine learning; Multi agent systems; Ontology learning; Semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

AGENT COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ONTOLOGY LEARNING; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543135981     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AGNT.0000011160.45980.4b     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. R. Bayardo, W. Bohrer, R. Brice, A. Cichocki, J. Fowler, A. Helal, V. Kashyap, T. Ksiezyk, G. Martin, M. Nodine, M. Rashid, M. Rusinkiewicz, R. Shea, C. Unnikrishnan, A. Unruh, and D. Woelk, "InfoSleuth: Agent-based semantic integration of information in open and dynamic environments," in M. Huhns and M. Singh, (eds.), Readings in Agents, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, pp. 205-216, 1998.
2. T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila, "The Semantic Web," Scientific American, May 2001.
3. A. H. Bond and L. Gasser, (eds.), Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1988.
4. M. Craven, D. DiPasquo, D. Freitag, A. McCallum, T. Mitchell, K. Nigam, and S. Slattery, "Learning to extract symbolic knowledge from the World Wide Web," in Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), 1998.
5. "The DARPA agent markup language homepage," http://www.daml.org, 2001.
6. T. Finin, Y. Labrou, and J. Mayfied, "KQML as an agent communication language," in J. Bradshaw, (ed.), Software Agents, MIT Press, 1997.
7. A. Garland and R. Alterman, "Multiagent learning through collective memory," in Adaptation, Coevolution, and Learning in Multiagent Systems, Technical Report SS-96-01, AAAI Symposium, Stanford, CA, March 25-27, Menlo Park, CA, AAAI Press, pp. 33-38, 1996.
8. J. Giampapa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Agent interoperation across multiagent system boundaries," in Proc. of 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, June 3-7, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
9. M. Genesereth and N. Nilsson, Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Palo Alto, CA, Morgan Kauffman, 1987.
10. T. Gruber, "The role of common ontology in achieving sharable, reusable knowledge bases," in J. A. Allen, R. Fikes, and E. Sandewall, (eds.), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kauffman, pp. 601-602, 1991.
11. M. Huhns and M. Singh, "Agents and multiagent systems: Themes, approaches, and challenges," in M. Huhns and M. Singh, (eds.), Readings in Agents, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 1998.
12. M. Iwazume, K. Shirakami, K. Hatadani, H. Takeda, and T. Nishida, "IICA: An ontology-based internet navigation system," AAAI-96 Workshop on Internet-based Information Systems, August 5, Portland, OR, 1996.
13. N. Jennings, K. Sycara, and M. Wooldridge, "A roadmap of agent research and development," Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 1, pp. 7-38, 1998.
14. K. Knight and S. Luk, "Building a large-scale knowledge base for machine translation," in Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), 1994.
15. C. Knoblock, Y. Arens, and C. Hsu, "Cooperating agents for information retrieval," in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
16. D. Kuokka and L. Harada, "Matchmaking for information integration," Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1996.
17. Lycos, "Lycos: Your personal internet guide," http://www.lycos.com, 1999.
18. Magellan, http://magellan.mckinley.com, 1999.
19. P. Maes, "Agents that reduce work and information overload," Comm. of ACM, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 31-40, July 1994.
20. E. Mena, A. Illarramendi, V. Kashyap, and A. Sheth, "OBSERVER: An approach for query processing in global information systems based on interoperation across pre-existing ontologies," International Journal Distributed and Parallel Databases, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 223-271, 2000.
21. T. M. Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
22. A. Ouksel, "A framework for a scalable agent architecture of cooperating knowledge sources," in M. Klusch, (ed.), Intelligent Information Agents: Cooperative, Rational and Adaptive Information Gathering in the Internet, Springer Verlag, 1999.
23. J. R. Quinlan, C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo, CA, 1993.
24. J. Rachlin and S. Salzberg, "PEBLS 3.0 User's Guide," Department of Computer Science, John Hopkins University, 1993.
25. S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.
26. L. Steels, "The origins of ontologies and communication conventions in multi-agent systems," Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 1, no. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 169-194, October 1998.
27. P. Weinstein and W. Birmingham, "Agent communication with differentiated ontologies: Eight new measures of description compatibility," Technical Report CSE-TR-383-99, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1999.
28. G. Weiss, Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
29. A. B. Williams, Learning Ontologies in a Multiagent System, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Kansas, 1999.
30. M. Wooldridge, "Intelligent agents," in G. Weiss, (ed.), Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 28-77, 1999.
31. X. Zhu, S. Gauch, L. Gerhard, N. Kral, and A. Pretschner, "Ontology-based web site mapping for information exploration," in Proc. 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Kansas City, Missouri, pp. 188-194, November 1999.
32. A. Doan, J. Madhavan, P. Domingos, and A. Halevy, "Learning to map between ontologies on the semantic web," WWW 2002, May 7, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002.
33. R. Agrawal, and S. Ramakrishnan, "On integrating catalogs," WWW 2001, pp. 603-612, 2001.