Distributed multi-agent communication system based on dynamic ontology mapping. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: El-Ghamrawy, Sally M.; El-Desouky, Ali I.
• Is Part Of: International journal of communication networks and distributed systems. Volume 10:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: agent communication language -- ACL -- interoperability -- knowledge query and manipulation language -- KQML -- multi-agent system -- MAS -- ontology mapping -- distributed intelligent system; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Telecommunication systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-3916

Abstract

Communication is the most important feature for meaningful interaction among agents in distributed multi-agent systems. Communication enables agent's interaction to achieve their goals. Agent communication languages provide a standard in the protocol and language used in the communication, but cannot provide a standard in ontology, because ontology depends on the subject and concept of the communication. This lack of standardisation is known as interoperability problem. In order to obtain semantic interoperability, agents need to agree on the basis of different ontologies. In this paper, a communication layer is proposed to outline the communication between agents, multiplatform communication system (MPCS) architecture is proposed to provide a highly flexible and scalable system. In addition a dynamic ontology mapping system for agent communication (DOMAC) is proposed based on different mapping approaches.