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Electronic commerce (eCommerce) environments have been emerging together with the Internet for the last decades. This led to a heterogeneous eCommerce landscape, resulting in interoperability problems between interacting agents. Interaction protocols like FIPA-ACL support the definition of the exchanged messages format and therefore, improve the interoperability. However, they do not support the specification of the exchanged data format, or how this data shall be processed. This leads to further interoperability problems. We propose the use of an interaction ontology — the Communication Ontology — as an agent interaction protocol. A Communication Ontology combines a domain ontology, a discourse ontology and an action ontology to specify the flow of interaction as well as the exchanged data format and messages and how they shall be processed. The combination of these three ontologies into one ontology improves the interoperability between the interacting agents and supports quick adaptations that become necessary, due to quickly evolving markets and rapid technological advances.
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Popp, R., Raneburger, D. (2011). A High-Level Agent Interaction Protocol Based on a Communication Ontology. In: Huemer, C., Setzer, T. (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23014-1_20
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