Agent-based Semantic Negotiation Protocol for Semantic Heterogeneity Solving in Multi-agent System

Dhouha Ben Noureddine, Atef Gharbi, Samir ben Ahmed

2017

Abstract

In this article, we propose an interactive agent model in an open and heterogeneous multi-agent system (MAS). Our model allows agents to autonomously communicate between each other through semantic heterogeneity. The communication problem can be expressed by the calculation based on the abilities acquired in the receiver agent, compared to the message sent by the sender agent. Hence, the semantic heterogeneity should be resolved in the message processing. The agent can autonomously enrich its own ontology by using semantic negotiation approach in several steps. We develop firstly, a model using an ontology alignment framework. Then, we enhance a similarity measure to select the most similar pairs by combining a psychological knowledge of the relevance, the resemblance, and the non-symmetry of similarity. At the end, we suggest a protocol for supporting semantic negotiation. In order to explain our approach, we implement a simple benchmark production system on JADE.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ben Noureddine D., Gharbi A. and ben Ahmed S. (2017). Agent-based Semantic Negotiation Protocol for Semantic Heterogeneity Solving in Multi-agent System . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 247-254. DOI: 10.5220/0006344602470254

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase17,
author={Dhouha Ben Noureddine and Atef Gharbi and Samir ben Ahmed},
title={Agent-based Semantic Negotiation Protocol for Semantic Heterogeneity Solving in Multi-agent System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={247-254},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006344602470254},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Agent-based Semantic Negotiation Protocol for Semantic Heterogeneity Solving in Multi-agent System
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - Ben Noureddine D.
AU - Gharbi A.
AU - ben Ahmed S.
PY - 2017
SP - 247
EP - 254
DO - 10.5220/0006344602470254