Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

Ontologies for Interaction Protocols.- On the Impact of Ontological Commitment.- Agent to Agent Talk: "Nobody There?" Supporting Agents Linguistic Communication.- Ontology Translation by Ontology Merging and Automated Reasoning.- Collaborative Understanding of Distributed Ontologies in a Multiagent Framework: Experiments on Operational Issues.- Reconciling Implicit and Evolving Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability.- Query Processing in Ontology-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Message Content Ontologies.- Incorporating Complex Mathematical Relations in Web-Portable Domain Ontologies.- The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing.- A UML Ontology and Derived Content Language for a Travel Booking Scenario.- Some Experiences with the Use of Ontologies in Deliberative Agents.- Location-Mediated Agent Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing.- An Ontology for Agent-Based Monitoring of Fulfillment Processes.

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