Ontology-Based Agent Matching and Communication

Yolanda Gil (co-PI) and Hans Chalupsky (co-PI)

USC/Information Sciences Institute

gil@isi.edu, hans@isi.edu

• Phosphorus: a knowledge and experience-based capabilities matcher , funded under the DARPA CoABS program. This work addresses the issue of how to match requests and agent capabilities through ontologies. The hypothesis is that a broad and shallow ontology (such as the HPKB upper ontology or SENSUS) is sufficient for locating agents.
• Rosetta: ontology-based agent communication , funded by DARPA as an ISO Technology Integration Experiment between the HPKB and the CoABS programs. Once you have found agents with the right capability (for example through Phosporus), then they need to use richer ontologies for communicating with each other. For this work, we will be using ontologies and tools that we are developing under the HPKB program.