SOARI: A Service Oriented Architecture to Support Agent Reputation Models Interoperability [chapter]

Luis G. Nardin, Anarosa A. F. Brandão, Jaime S. Sichman, Laurent Vercouter
2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Agents are becoming a popular technology for the development of distributed, heterogeneous and always available systems. In those systems, interactions are essential, but semantic heterogeneity turns the establishment of interaction among agents into a problem. When considering reputation models in multi-agent systems, the lack of a consensus about the reputation definition could be a problem for interactions since they are essential to accelerate the convergence of the reputation evaluation.
more » ... propose in this paper a service-oriented architecture to deal with this semantic heterogeneity. This architecture supports concept mapping and translation among reputation model ontologies to a common ontology and vice-versa, thus allowing heterogeneous agents interoperability.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-92803-4_15 fatcat:a33u6o5w5jhplg6pmbfaptotkq