Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing) [Paperback]

Valentina Tamma (Editor), Stephen Cranefield (Editor), Tim Finin (Editor), Steven Willmott (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3764372370 | ISBN-13: 978-3764372378 | Publication Date: December 30, 2005 | Edition: 1

The volume aims at providing a comprehensive review of the diverse efforts covering the gap existing between the two main perspectives on the topic of ontologies for multi-agent systems, namely: How ontologies should be modelled and represented in order to be effectively used in agent systems, and on the other hand, what kind of capabilities should be exhibited by an agent in order to make use of ontological knowledge and to perform efficient reasoning with it. The volume collects the most significant papers of the AAMAS 2002 and AAMAS 2003 workshop on ontologies for agent systems, and the EKAW 2002 workshop on ontologies for multi-agent systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (December 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3764372370
• ISBN-13: 978-3764372378
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,279,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tim Finin (http://bit.ly/finin) is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in applications of Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems and language understanding. His current research is focused on the Semantic Web, mobile computing, analyzing and extracting information from text and online social media, and on enhancing security and privacy in information systems. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois and has also held positions at Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT AI Laboratory.