An Ontology-Based Approach for Multi-Agent Systems Engineering
Souleymane Koussoubé, Armel Ayimdji Tekemetieu, Laure Pauline Fotso · International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science · 2013
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.