FEMAS: An Ontology-based Broker Architecture for e-commerce Multi-Agent Systems
Pérez Santángelo, Hugo · El Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectual (National University of La Plata) · 2003
The agents metaphor, expressed theoretically in the Distributed Artificial Intelligence field of Multi-Agent Systems, has been awakening the interest of the commercial software companies, because new emergent technologies like e-commerce follow the same metaphor from the consumer's perspective. Researchers in that field has been developing useful models that can be used to construct commercial servers, but the computational complexity problem and the lack of general models and architectures, sometimes make the technological transfer between researchers and commercial companies impracticable. State of the art is to put the focus on ontologies in order to create more general business models, but there are some software engineering issues related to the software construction that ontology does not cover. This paper offers a proposed solution to that problem, including conceptual aspects, and necessaries methods to model commercial Multi-Agent Systems, using fuzzy logic and evolutionary algorithms.