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In group decision making problems is common the necessity of achieving a consensus before making a decision. Many consensus reaching processes have been introduced in the literature but not many intelligent systems have finally been implemented to deal with such processes. In this contribution an initial prototype of a consensus support system supported on a multi-agent paradigm is presented, showing...
As agents must comply with a protocol in any communication and interaction, each multi-agent platform had better offer a mechanism to enable agents dynamically load proper protocols according to the interaction mechanism. For this purpose, this paper proposes a protocol ontology framework, and implements it on the Java Agent Development framework (JADE) platform. Experiment results show that the agents...
This paper presents a new network management system with ontology-supported multi-agent techniques. This technique derived from the ontology combining with related free software - Ethereal and Cacti which stored the operating information of network management perfectly into the backend database; furthermore, from the view of the fundamental functions of information agents, the system could sketch...
Effective supply chain management (SCM) comprises activities involving the demand and supply of resources and services. One important aspect of SCM is that companies in the supply chain may have to make decisions which are conflicting with the other partners. Negotiation is an essential approach to solve transaction and scheduling problems among supply chain members. Multi-agent systems (MAS) are...
In the environment of the electronic commerce, agent and multi-agent system (MAS) is often adopted to the intelligent service. In related research we often take interaction of agents as methods to resolve business problems. Our framework attempts to interact with a popular the application of semantic web such as semantic web Service and semantic web Application. The proposed solution prevents the...
The virtual enterprise (VE), which is formed according to some business opportunities through the collaboration of supply chain partners, is an effective way of business operation in the dynamic global market. This paper proposes an automated negotiation protocol for multi-agent system (MAS) based virtual enterprises. Firstly, to facilitate the functional integration of VEs, a MAS framework is developed...
In this paper, the distributed and intelligent agent software to support network equipments based on the ontology was proposed, in which an integrated information fetching system for network flow information was developed. The system operated the information fetching through the cooperation and coordinate of the intelligent agent software, in addition, the system also provided warnings after analysis...
This paper describes an application of a distributed knowledge-based multi-agent architecture to support automated negotiation between and within virtual enterprises (VE). Considering constraints of traditional negotiation approaches (predetermined protocols as well as hard-coded and non-adaptive strategies), we combine the agent paradigm with ontology-based solutions to overcome these limitations...
Trust and reputation management play an important role in agent-based recommender systems. Although several protocols and ontologies of agents using trust and reputation has been proposed, none of them has been so extensively used and implicitly accepted by research community as those from agent reputation and trust (ART in advance) testbed. The motivation of this adaptation is to facilitate the use...
In order to perform its tasks on the semantic web, software agents must be able to communicate with other agents using domain ontologies, even when considering different ontologies. Thus, it's necessary to address the semantic interoperability issue to enable agents to recognize common concepts and misunderstandings. This work proposes the use of negotiation concepts in business scenarios for addressing...
This paper proposes a semantic information integration approach for agent-based electronic markets based on ontology-based technology, improved by the application and exploitation of the trust relationships captured by the social networks. We intent face the problem of the growth of e-commerce using software agents to support both customers and suppliers in buying and selling products. The diversity...
In the environment of the electronic commerce, multi-agent system is often adopted to the automated negotiation. In this paper, we address the problem of negotiation process in a multi-agents system by using ontology. Therefore, we present an ontology solution based on the knowledge management system for semantic heterogeneity. The proposed solution prevents the misunderstanding during the negotiation...
Reconciliation of inconsistent perspectives is an important issue for collaborative GIS and group decision making support systems. Although some methods, such as extended speech act theory (ESAT), have been used to handle this issue, some problems still remain unsolved such as how to define and process the negotiation workflow, how to handle the complex interactions among distributed users, and how...
In the e-commerce environments, multi-agent system is often used in automated negotiation. But when agents communicate they do not necessarily use the same vocabulary or ontology. If they want to interact successfully they must find correspondences between the terms used in their Ontology. It is obvious that negotiating agent architectures have not been addressed sufficiently. Towards this end, this...
Negotiation protocol is the basic principle in the electronic commerce, this principle have a direct impact on the efficiency of the negotiation. This study brings up the communication architecture with negotiation protocol on the semantic Web. Precisely speaking, agents make computing with ontology, and we define an agent's communication ontology for this communication framework. Semantic Web use...
We investigate the mapping of OWL-S process models to ISPL - the system description language for MCMAS, a symbolic model checker tailored to the verification of multi agent systems. In our approach, services are viewed as agents, and service compositions as multi agent systems. We show how various composition constructs defined in OWL-S can be encoded into ISPL by using the proposed mapping rules...
CSCW requires efficient support to distributed teams. Groupware is efficient but rather inflexible, multi-agent systems are more flexible but difficult to implement. OMAS (open multi-agent system) is a multi-agent platform derived from a number of previous research projects and teaching courses. With OMAS we tried to answer the problems of architecture, skill definition, protocol implementation, ontologies,...
Agent communication languages provide a standard in the protocol and language used in the agent communication, but can't provide a standard in ontology, because ontology depends on the subject and concept of the communication and it is almost impossible for two agents can share a same semantic vocabulary, they usually have a heterogeneous private vocabulary defined in their own private ontology. The...
With the development of computer network, the intelligent degree of communication individuals was significantly increased, the requirement of automatic processing on communication message was also significantly increased, but the content of communication message itself hasnpsilat meaning, communication individuals canpsilat understand the content of communication, so resource canpsilat be used adequately,...
Pragmatics Web service is a novel pattern for designing and deploying Web services with the concept of pragmatics as its knowledge foundation. It primarily concerns preference, context, communication and negotiation of service participants, so that the real meaning for conveyed message can be apprehend by the service requester or provider. In this paper, we propose an agent negotiation framework towards...
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