Ontology negotiation: goals, requirements and implementation

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-90

  van Diggelen, Jurriaan ^a   Beun, Robbert Jan ^a   Dignum, Frank ^a   van Eijk, Rogier M ^a   Meyer, John Jules ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

description logic; MASs; Multi Agent Systems; ontologies; ontology negotiation; semantic interoperability

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849059769     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijaose.2007.013265     Document Type: Article

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