Authors:
Virgínia Nascimento
;
Maria João Viamonte
;
Alda Canito
and
Nuno Silva
Affiliation:
Institute of Engineering and Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal
Keyword(s):
Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, Semantic Heterogeneity, Ontology Matching, Ontology Alignment Negotiation, Emergent Social Networks.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Cloud Computing
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Electronic Commerce
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Semantic Web Technologies
;
Services Science
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In this paper we approach the semantic heterogeneity problem which arises in agent mediated electronic commerce, presenting the AEMOS system as a promising answer. AEMOS is an agent mediated electronic commerce platform which main goal is to enable an efficient and transparent negotiation between agents even when they use different ontologies to represent the same domain of knowledge. The system provides ontology services, more specifically ontology matching services, which are improved by the exploitation of emergent social networks. In this paper we present the currently implemented system and demonstrate how an agent mediated electronic commerce system may benefit from the inclusion and combination of ontology services and social network based support.