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Service-oriented architecture for ontologies supporting multi-agent system negotiations in virtual enterprise
- Source :
- Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. 23(4):1331-1349
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature
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Abstract
- This paper offers a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for ontology-based multi-agent system (MAS) negotiations in the context of virtual enterprises (VEs). The objective of this paper is fourfold. First, it is to design a SOA which utilizes ontology and MAS to provide a distributed and interoperable environment for automated negotiations in VE. In this architecture, individual ontologies for both the VE initiator and its potential partners are constructed to describe and store resources and service knowledge. Second, a series of semantic ontology matching methods are developed to reach agents' interoperability during the negotiation process. Third, correspondence-based extended contract net protocol is presented, which provides basic guidelines for agents' reaching mutual understandings and service negotiation. Last, a fuzzy set theory based knowledge reuse approach is proposed to evaluate the current negotiation behaviors of the VE partners. A walkthrough example is presented to illustrate the methodologies and system architecture proposed in this paper.
- Subjects :
- Service (systems architecture)
computer.internet_protocol
business.industry
Computer science
Multi-agent system
Interoperability
Service-oriented architecture
Ontology (information science)
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
World Wide Web
Contract Net Protocol
Artificial Intelligence
Systems architecture
Software engineering
business
computer
Ontology alignment
Software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09565515
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2aff31ae0f70d946ebf4da505500ff82
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-010-0469-1