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
The main goal of this effort is to investigate how ontologies help in
agent coordination and communication.
There are two related projects:
-
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.