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A Meta-ontological Framework for Multi-agent Systems Design

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Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering (IWINAC 2007)

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The paper introduces an approach to using a meta-ontology framework for complex multi-agent systems design, and illustrates it in an application related to ecological-medical issues. The described shared ontology is pooled from private sub-ontologies, which represent a problem area ontology, an agent ontology, a task ontology, an ontology of interactions, and the multi-agent system architecture ontology.

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  1. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Polytechnical Superior School of Albacete, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071-Albacete, Spain

    Marina V. Sokolova & Antonio Fernández-Caballero

  2. Kursk State Technical University, Kursk, ul.50 Let Oktyabrya, 305040, Russia

    Marina V. Sokolova

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Sokolova, M.V., Fernández-Caballero, A. (2007). A Meta-ontological Framework for Multi-agent Systems Design. In: Mira, J., Álvarez, J.R. (eds) Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering. IWINAC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73055-2_54

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