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Enforcing Social Semantic in FIPA-ACL Using SPIN

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Agents and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2019

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 148))

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Agent technology is an emerging software paradigm for developing open, distributed and heterogeneous complex system. There is a need for different software to communicate with one another in order to achieve its task. Therefore, a standard protocol is required. In agent technology, this common protocol is referred to as agent communication language. Agent communication language is a high-level protocol/language that allows agent applications to exchange, parse and understand the meaning of the exchanged content. One of the widely adopted agent communications is FIPA-ACL. An ontology for FIPA-ACL has been developed in previous work. However, the developed ontology does not incorporate any semantic model. Hence, in this paper, SPIN notation is used to model the social semantic of FIPA-ACL as it is able to link the class definition with SPARQL queries to capture rules and constraints to formalize the expected behaviour of classes.

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  1. Knowledge Technology Research Unit, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Kim Soon Gan & Kim On Chin

  2. Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Patricia Anthony

  3. Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT), National University of Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Abdul Razak Hamdan

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Gan, K.S., Anthony, P., Chin, K.O., Hamdan, A.R. (2020). Enforcing Social Semantic in FIPA-ACL Using SPIN. In: Jezic, G., Chen-Burger, YH., Kusek, M., Šperka, R., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agents and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 148. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8679-4_1

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