Authors: Xiaohuan Wang T N Wong Gong Wang
Publish Date: 2010/11/04
Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 1331-1349
Abstract
This paper offers a serviceoriented architecture SOA for ontologybased multiagent system MAS negotiations in the context of virtual enterprises VEs The objective of this paper is fourfold First it is to design a SOA which utilizes ontology and MAS to provide a distributed and interoperable environment for automated negotiations in VE In this architecture individual ontologies for both the VE initiator and its potential partners are constructed to describe and store resources and service knowledge Second a series of semantic ontology matching methods are developed to reach agents’ interoperability during the negotiation process Third correspondencebased extended contract net protocol is presented which provides basic guidelines for agents’ reaching mutual understandings and service negotiation Last a fuzzy set theory based knowledge reuse approach is proposed to evaluate the current negotiation behaviors of the VE partners A walkthrough example is presented to illustrate the methodologies and system architecture proposed in this paperThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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