Towards Service-Oriented Ontology-Based Coordination

Moyaux, Thierry; Smith, Ben Lithgow; Paurobally, Shamimabi; Tamma, Valentina; Wooldridge, Michael

doi:10.1109/icws.2006.133

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“…However, in dynamic and open distributed systems, where many dimensions of the system such as unplanned tasks and availability of resources cannot be accurately identified at the design time, a coordination mechanism capable of managing interdependencies at run-time, known as Dynamic Coordination, is required [25]. In a dynamic coordination model, coordinables have to communicate and reason on how they coordinate their activities at run-time [25,26] to avoid conflicts. Therefore, communication and reasoning at run-time are two important attributes that a proper dynamic coordination model should possess.…”

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“…Combining coordination model and multi-agent systems via ontology: Although some research works have been published in using ontology as coordination media [25,26,30], we have not found considerable efforts in proposing ontology-driven coordination models in which multi-agent communication mechanism, agent plans and the coordination laws are incorporated within the body of a single coordination media, which is in this case an ontology. In contrast, O-DC possesses these attributes.…”

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“…In this method, knowledge is represented in an ontology and is known as Ontology-Driven Dynamic Coordination Model. This model consists of an ontology, including knowledge concerning the entities of MAS and a common vocabulary containing the taxonomy of the domain [25,26]. Ontology enables the agents to reason about the interdependencies between their own activities and the activities of other agents [25].…”

Section: Ontology-driven Dynamic Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some examples of this approach are, providing information for semantic interoperability in supply-chain Systems (SCS) [35], utilizing ontology in RFID networks [30] and coordinating semantic web processes [25,26]. Therefore, this approach has been chosen in proposing O-DC.…”

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Ontology-driven coordination model for multiagent-based mobile workforce brokering systems

2011

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Coordination has been recognized by many researchers as the most important feature of multi-agent systems. Coordination is defined as managing interdependencies amongst activities (Malone and Crowston in ACM Comput. Surv. 26(1):87-119, 1994). The traditional approach of implementing a coordination mechanism is to hard-wire it into a coordination system at design time. However, in dynamic and open environments, many attributes of the system cannot be accurately identified at the design time. Therefore, dynamic coordination, capable of coordinating activities at run-time, has emerged. On the other hand, a successful dynamic coordination model for multi-agent systems requires knowledge sharing as well as common vocabulary. Therefore, an ontological approach is an appropriate way in proposing dynamic coordination models for multiagent systems. In this paper, an Ontology-Driven Dynamic Coordination Model (O-DC) for Multiagent-Based Mobile Workforce Brokering Systems (MWBS) (Mousavi et al. in Int.

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Section: Components Of Coordinationmentioning

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Section: Ontology-driven Dynamic Coordinationmentioning

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Ontology-driven coordination model for multiagent-based mobile workforce brokering systems

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“…Coordination is a major issue within distributed computing technologies (Singh and Huhns 2005), and must often be solved dynamically at run-time, rather than being hardwired (Moyaux et al 2006). The same applies to perceptual organisation in computer vision, and the great amount of research devoted to that in many labs clearly shows that it is a major, and, as yet, unresolved issue.…”

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Dynamic Coordination in Brain and Mind

Phillips¹,

von²,

Singer³

2010

Dynamic Coordination in the Brain

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Our goal here is to clarify the concept of "dynamic coordination", and to note major issues that it raises for the cognitive neurosciences. In general, coordinating interactions are those that produce coherent and relevant overall patterns of activity, while preserving the essential individual identities and functions of the activities coordinated. "Dynamic coordination" is the coordination that is created on a moment-by-moment basis so as to deal effectively with unpredictable aspects of the current situation. We distinguish different computational goals for dynamic coordination, and outline issues that arise concerning local cortical circuits, brain systems, cognition, and evolution. Our focus here is on dynamic coordination by widely distributed processes of self-organisation, but we also discuss the role of central executive processes.2

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