An Ontology to support automated negotiation
This work addresses interoperability and knowledge management issues for developers and users in domains like ITS and e-commerce, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ontology and negotiation concepts.
The authors tackled the problem of automated negotiation in multiagent systems by proposing an ontology that connects with domain-specific ones, such as in Intelligent Transportation Systems, to reduce hardcoded knowledge and ensure interoperability, with expressiveness proven in an automatic traffic light setting application.
In this work we propose an ontology to support automated negotiation in multiagent systems. The ontology can be connected with some domain-specific ontologies to facilitate the negotiation in different domains, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), e-commerce, etc. The specific negotiation rules for each type of negotiation strategy can also be defined as part of the ontology, reducing the amount of knowledge hardcoded in the agents and ensuring the interoperability. The expressiveness of the ontology was proved in a multiagent architecture for the automatic traffic light setting application on ITS.