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Ontological Trading in a Multi-agent System

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In a more open world, the Web-based Information Systems (WIS) must be flexible and ready to be adaptable, extendable, accessible and operable by different people (or groups) who are in different places with different types of information (convergent systems). The convergence of systems is possible due to: (a) certain capacity for autonomy (software agents), (b) ability to use a common vocabulary for all convergent systems (ontologies); and (c) capacity for mediation between subsystems (traders). Moderns IS use ontologies as part of the design and implementation of their architecture. Traders are an essential part of these IS, where ontologies are required for them (traders) to facilitate integration. This paper describes the SOLERES trading service, a solution to carry out the mediation function within a multiagent environmental information system. The data handled by the trader are defined by ontologies, as are the semantic description and content of the messages by which the trader communicateswith the rest of the agents. An example to explain the functionality of the ontological trading agent is also introduced.

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  1. Applied Computing Group, University of Almeria, Ctra Sacramento s/n, 04120, Almeria, Spain

    J. Criado, N. Padilla, L. Iribarne, J. A. Asensio & F. Muñoz

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Maison Jean Kuntzmann, 110 av. de la Chimie, F-38041, Grenoble, France

    Yves Demazeau

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht Centrumgebouw Noord, office A117, Padualaan 14, De Uitho, 3584CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  4. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  5. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

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  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  7. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Edificio Politécnico, Despacho 408, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004, Ourense, Spain

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  8. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

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Criado, J., Padilla, N., Iribarne, L., Asensio, J.A., Muñoz, F. (2010). Ontological Trading in a Multi-agent System. In: Demazeau, Y., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12433-4_38

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