Semantic Web Technology for Agent Communication Protocols

Berges, Idoia; Bermúdez, Jesús; Goñi, Alfredo; Illarramendi, Arantza

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_4

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“…In [2] a hybrid approach is presented: they define a communication acts ontology using OWL and express the semantics of those acts through social commitments that are formalized in the Event Calculus. This work is complementary with respect to our approach, in fact we specify also the semantics of social commitments using Semantic Web technologies.…”

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Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

Fornara

Colombetti

2010

AI Communications

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Monitoring the temporal evolution of obligations and prohibitions is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In this paper we regard such obligations and prohibitions as cases of social commitment with starting points and deadlines, and propose to model them in OWL, the logical language recommended by the W3C for Semantic Web applications. In particular we propose an application-independent ontology of the notions of social commitment, temporal proposition, event, agent, role, and norm, that can be used in the specification of any open interaction system. We then delineate a hybrid solution that uses the OWL ontology, SWRL rules, and a Java program to dynamically monitor the temporal evolution of social commitments, taking into account the elapsing of time and the actions performed by the agents interacting within the system.

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Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

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Colombetti

2010

AI Communications

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“…Moreover the approach proposed for detecting violations is based on the external performance of SPARQL queries and on the update of the ABox to register that an obligation/prohibition resulted violated; however SPARQL queries do not exploit the semantics specified by the ontology. In [2] a hybrid approach is presented: they define a communication acts ontology using OWL and express the semantics of those acts through social commitments that are formalized in the Event Calculus. This work is complementary with respect to our approach, in fact we specify also the semantics of social commitments using semantic web technologies.…”

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Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions Using Semantic Web Technology

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Colombetti

2010

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII

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Abstract. The specification and monitoring of conditional obligations and prohibitions with starting points and deadlines is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In this paper we regard such obligations and prohibitions as cases of social commitment, and propose to model them in OWL, the logical language recommended by the W3C for Semantic Web applications. In particular we propose an application-independent ontology of the notions of social commitment, temporal proposition, event, agent, role and norms that can be used in the specification of any open interaction system. We then delineate a hybrid solution that uses the ontology, SWRL rules, and a Java program to dynamically monitor or simulate the temporal evolution of social commitments, due to the elapsing of time and to the actions performed by the agents interacting within the system.

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“…These technologies facilitate semantic interoperation between heterogeneous information systems ( [15]; [2]) as opposed to other formats for interchanging data -such as XML-which do not deal with the semantics of the exchanged data [7]. Two general approaches for interoperability among systems are described in [12]: Using a canonical model to which the particular systems are linked or aligning the particular models two by two.…”

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Semantic interoperability of clinical data

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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Model-Driven Interoperability

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The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has brought multiple benefits to the healthcare domain. However, those advantages would be greater if seamless interoperability of EHRs between heterogeneous Health Information Systems were achieved. Nowadays, achieving that kind of interoperability is on the agenda of many national and regional initiatives, and in the majority of the cases, the problem is addressed through the use of different standards.In this paper we present a proposal that goes one step further and tackles the interoperability problem from a formal ontology driven perspective. So, our proposal allows one system to interpret on the fly clinical data sent by another one even when they use different representations. We present in the paper the three key components of the proposal: 1. An ontology that provides -in its upper levela canonical representation of EHR statements, more precisely of medical observations, which can be then specialized -in the lower level-by health institutions according to their proprietary models, 2. A translator module that facilitates the definition of the lower level of the ontology from the particular EHRs data storage structures following a semiautomatic approach: first a translation process of underlying data structures, using -whenever possible-information about properties (functional dependencies, etc.) into ontology elements described in OWL2, and next, an edition process where the health system administrators can define new axioms to adjust and enrich the result obtained in the semi-automatic process. Finally we show the third component, a mapping module that helps in the task of defining Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. the links among the terms of the upper and lower levels of the ontology. It obtains a declarative mapping specified in OWL2 and puts a wide range of mapping scenarios within reach of health systems' administrators.

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Semantic Web Technology for Agent Communication Protocols

Cited by 6 publications

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Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions Using Semantic Web Technology

Semantic interoperability of clinical data

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