Generating Arguments for Ontology Matching

Abstract

Agents embedded in open, dynamic and decentralized environments adopt different ontologies to describe their domain of discourse. Yet, agents have no prior knowledge of the other agents with whom they will interact. Therefore, a consistent and compatible communication relies on the agents' ability to reconcile in run-time the vocabulary used in their ontologies whose result is a set of correspondences. Since each party might have its own perspective about what are the best correspondences, conflicts arise. To address such conflicts, it is envisaged as a suitable approach that agents adopt the generic argument-based negotiation process presented in [1]. A critical issue of that process concerns the argument generation process according to the argumentation framework that it relies on. In this paper we propose an automatic process to generate arguments regarding the ontologies reconciliation through semantic interpretations of third party generated correspondences.

A systematic review of argumentation techniques for multi-agent systems research

“…This Model Layer should be adapted for the specific domain under consideration. This framework has been successfully applied in an ontology matching domain (Maio and Silva 2014;Maio et al 2011). …”

“…In industrial management, these techniques are applied in management systems for multiple tasks, such as to decide the way to dry an oven in automobile production (Ye et al (2005), Tang and Parsons (2005) 2010), to manage waste-water discharges (Aulinas et al 2012), to decide about an automatic freight process (Chow et al 2013) or to improve the performance of transport systems in rural areas (Velaga et al 2012). Knowledge engineering is another interesting field in which some studies apply argumentation techniques for different tasks, such as to make automatic matching among existing ontologies or knowledge bases (Maio et al 2011;Maio and Silva 2014) or to discuss about a particular issue in medical guidelines (Grando et al 2012). For some critical tasks, argumentation techniques are applied too, such as an emergency rescue (Zhang et al 2012) or security administration (Rowe et al 2012).…”

Application of Agent Technology for Fault Diagnosis of Telecommunication Networks

“…Collaborative (Hsairi et al, 2006;Moraitis and Spanoudakis, 2007;Yuan et al, 2009;Obeid and Moubaiddin, 2009;Ge et al, 2010;Hsairi et al, 2010;Ye et al, 2010;Maio et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2012;El-Sisi and Mousa, 2012;Aulinas et al, 2012;Chow et al, 2013;Grando et al, 2012;Harvey et al, 2007;Marreiros et al, 2005;Rowe et al, 2012;Velaga et al, 2012;Letia and Groza, 2012;Amgoud and Serrurier, 2008;Monteserin and Amandi, 2011;Das, 2005;Bulling et al, 2008;Amgoud and Serrurier, 2007;Huang and Lin, 2010;Janjua and Hussain, 2012;Tao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014;Kakas and Moraitis, 2003;Fogli et al, 2013;Fan et al, 2014;Bedi and Vashisth, 2014;Ferrando and Onaindia, 2013;Maio and Silva, 2014;Vicari et al, 2003;Tang and Parsons, 2005;Morge and Beaune, 2004) Competitive (Yuan et al, 2011;Keppens, 2011;Heras et al, 2013b,a;Brandao Neto et al, 2013;…”

“…Thus, the argumentation framework must be compatible with that reasoning process of the agent. (Yuan et al, 2009;Wang and Luo, 2010;Caiquan et al, 2010;Ge et al, 2010;Hsairi et al, 2006Hsairi et al, , 2010Obeid and Moubaiddin, 2009;Yuan et al, 2011;Maio et al, 2011;Das, 2005;van der Weide et al, 2011;Bulling et al, 2008;Amgoud and Serrurier, 2007;Keppens, 2011;Rowe et al, 2012;Gaertner and Toni, 2008;Vreeswijk, 2005;Amgoud and Serrurier, 2008;Brandao Neto et al, 2013;Tao et al, 2014;Amgoud et al, 2000;Kakas and Moraitis, 2003;dAvila Garcez et al, 2014;Sierra et al, 1998;Fan et al, 2013;Amgoud and Parsons, 2002;Amgoud and Prade, 2009;Amgoud et al, 2005;Amgoud, 2006;Tang and Parsons, 2005;Morge and Beaune, 2004;Alonso, 2004) Prototype 22 (Moraitis and Spanoudakis, 2007;Ye et al, 2010;Monteserin and Amandi, 2011;Heras et al, 2013b;Huang and Lin, 2010;Janjua and Hussain, 2012;Xiong et al, 2012;…”

“…Framework (AAF) (Bondarenko et al, 1993) Toni, 2007, 2008;Fan et al, 2014Fan et al, , 2013 Argumentation-based Negotiation (ABN) (Rahwan et al, 2003) ( Ye et al, 2010;Hsairi et al, 2006;Zhang et al, 2012;ElSisi and Mousa, 2012;Harvey et al, 2007;Brandao Neto et al, 2013;Xue-jie et al, 2013;Sierra et al, 1998;Morge and Beaune, 2004;Alonso, 2004) Three-Layer Argumentation Framework (TLAF) (Maio and Silva, 2012) (Maio et al, 2011;Maio and Silva, 2014) Logic Programming without Negation as Failure (LPwNF) (Kakas et al, 1994) ( Moraitis and Spanoudakis, 2007;Kakas and Moraitis, 2003) …”