Using an ontology to solve the negotiation problems in mobile agent information system
Sawsan Saad, Hayfa Zgaya, Slim Hammadi · Conference proceedings/Conference proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics · 2008
In this paper, we address the problem of negotiation process in a multi-agents system by using ontologies. Therefore, we present an ontology solution based on the knowledge management system for semantic heterogeneity. The proposed solution prevents the misunderstanding during the negotiation process though the agents' communications. Our approach aims to facilitate, to automate the communications and to make the agents able to understand each other when using these ontologies. Thus, we propose a general architecture for Negotiation process which uses Ontology-based Knowledge Management System (NOKMS). This architecture consists of three layers: the Negotiation Layer (NL) that describes the negotiation process between the Initiator Static Agents (ISAs) and the Participant Mobile Agents (PMAs) by using suitable ontologies, the Semantic Layer (SEL) contains the semantic translator which uses in the case of misunderstanding of the sent messages between the agents, and the last one is the Knowledge Management Systems Layer (KMSL) which bases on the Intelligent Knowledge Base (IKB) to give the flexibility to our negotiation ontology. We will try to apply our architecture on the Multimodal Transport Information System (MTIS) project where we will use an agent architecture in our proposal NOKMS to improves the execution of negotiation process in multi-agents systems which use different ontologies in order to satisfy the transport customers.