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Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2002

STEPHEN CRANEFIELD ,
STEVEN WILLMOTT  and
TIM FININ
STEPHEN CRANEFIELD
Affiliation:
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
STEVEN WILLMOTT
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
TIM FININ
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
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Abstract

It is now more than ten years since researchers in the US Knowledge Sharing Effort envisaged a future where complex systems could be built by combining knowledge and services from multiple knowledge bases and the first agent communication language, KQML, was proposed (Neches et al., 1991). This model of communication, based on speech acts, a declarative message content representation language and the use of explicit ontologies defining the domains of discourse (Genesereth & Ketchpel, 1994), has become widely recognised as having great benefits for the integration of disparate and distributed information sources to form an open, extensible and loosely coupled system. In particular, this idea has become a key tenet in the multi-agent systems research community.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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