Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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384593 | Expert Systems with Applications | 2013 | 14 Pages |
Over the last years, there has been a change of perspective concerning the management of information systems, since they are no longer isolated and need to communicate with others. However, from a semantic point of view, real communication is difficult to achieve due to the heterogeneity of the systems. We present a proposal which, considering information systems are represented by software agents, provides a framework that favors a semantic communication among them, overcoming the heterogeneity of their agent communication languages. The main components of the framework are a suite of ontologies – conceptualizing communication acts – that will be used for generating the communication conversion, and an Event Calculus interpretation of the communications, which will be used for formalizing the notion of a satisfactory conversion. Moreover, we present a motivating example in order to complete the explanation of the whole picture.
► A framework for seamless communication among heterogeneous agent systems is presented. ► Message conversion is facilitated by an ontology of communication acts. ► Proposed conversions are checked by an Event Calculus representation of the scenario. ► A prototype allows us to observe the behavior of the framework in specific scenarios.