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Ontological Modeling of Virtual Organization Agents

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Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2006)

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Cross-organizational interoperability and coordination are major challenges to Virtual Organization(VO) applications. Multi-agent systems combined with Semantic Web are promising approach for solving the challenging problems. In this paper, a semantic Web enabled multi-agent platform for logistic VO supporting is presented. The issue of extending OWL with multi-attribute constraints for VO modeling is addressed. A constraint rule language SWOCRL is proposed which is based on OWL and SWRL with constraint extension and class-scoped restriction. Important VO concepts such as organizations, activities, resources, contracts, interactions and their logistic specializations are described with OWL plus SWOCRL.

This work is funded by National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 60373057.

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  1. School of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China

    Liao Lejian, Zhu Liehuang & Qiu Jing

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  1. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing

    Zhong-Zhi Shi

  2. Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, 12120, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand

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Lejian, L., Liehuang, Z., Jing, Q. (2006). Ontological Modeling of Virtual Organization Agents. In: Shi, ZZ., Sadananda, R. (eds) Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11802372_23

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