Ontological modeling of virtual organization agents

Lejian Liao*, Liehuang Zhu, Jing Qiu

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Abstract

Cross-organizational interoperability and coordination are major challenges to Virtual Organization(VO) applications. Multi-agent systems combined with Semantic Web are promising approach for solving the challenging problems. In this paper, a semantic Web enabled multi-agent platform for logistic VO supporting is presented. The issue of extending OWL with multi-attribute constraints for VO modeling is addressed. A constraint rule language SWOCRL is proposed which is based on OWL and SWRL with constraint extension and class-scoped restriction. Important VO concepts such as organizations, activities, resources, contracts, interactions and their logistic specializations are described with OWL plus SWOCRL.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAgent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Subtitle of host publication9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages220-232
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540367071, 9783540367079
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006 - Guilin, China
Duration: 7 Aug 20068 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4088 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period7/08/068/08/06

Keywords

  • Agent
  • Constraint rule
  • Ontology
  • Semantic Web
  • Virtual organization modeling

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