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OIL Ontologies for Collaborative Task Performance in Coalitions of Self-Interested Actors

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Presented are the Task Model and the ontologies for arranging cooperative work in an open organization of intelligent agents-executives. These agents dynamically form the coalitions for collaborative task performance. Coalition formation is guided by contracting negotiation in frame of the Arrangement Phase. The role of the Task and Negotiation Ontologies is to provide the shared conceptualisation of the terms, the structures and the procedures used by agents in the processes of activity analysis, decomposition, performance and delegation. The ontologies are formalized in OIL and are translated to DAML (RDF), RDFS, SHIQ notations, thus providing the concepts in the forms of emerging service mark-up standards.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematical Modelling and IT, Zaporozhye State Univ., 66 Zhukovskogo st., 69063, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

    Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle & Vyachyslav Tolok

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  1. Graduate school of environment and information sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Hiroshi Arisawa

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  3. SICE Computer Networking, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA

    Vijay Kumar

  4. University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  5. VP Industry Services DAMA International, PO Box 5786, Bellevue, WA, 98006-5786, USA

    Ingrid Hunt

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Ermolayev, V., Keberle, N., Tolok, V. (2002). OIL Ontologies for Collaborative Task Performance in Coalitions of Self-Interested Actors. In: Arisawa, H., Kambayashi, Y., Kumar, V., Mayr, H.C., Hunt, I. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for New Information Systems Technologies. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46140-X_30

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