本体论在Agent间通信中的应用

Application of Ontology in Communication among Agents

在基于agent的仿真系统中,agent之间的协作和通信问题一直是研究的热点和重点。而agent的通信问题又是agent协作的前提。目前存在的agent通信语言只规范了通信行为,而没有规范通信内容。本体论作为一种知识表示方法,利用它对agent通信内容进行规范化表示是一种可行的方式。首先对本体的概念做了简要介绍,并结合一个例子给出了领域本体的开发方法、步骤,然后对本体理论在agent间通信方面的应用进行了详细探讨。

Communication and cooperation among agents are two key problems in the agent-based simulation system. Communication is the prerequisite of cooperation. However, the existent agent communication languages only standardize communication act, but not communication content. The method flint ontology is used to represent the communication content is feasible. Firstly, the concept of ontology was described briefly and the method and steps of domain ontology development were introduced by a simple example. Then the application of ontology in agent communication was detailedly discussed.