Modeling Distribution and Exchange of Domain Knowledge in Multi-agent Environment
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2017
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Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University
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International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS);Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-13
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Abstract
Multi-agent systems often dedicate a shared centralized ontology as domain knowledge but
unfortunately they completely neglect the decentralized nature of domain knowledge. This nature implies
distributing domain knowledge on domain’s agents rather than centralize it in a shared ontology. This paper comes
to embrace the trend of decentralizing domain knowledge by proposing the knowledge distribution model.
Furthermore, the paper also proposes a knowledge exchange model in which a protocol and two types of queries are
designed and implemented for exchange knowledge between agents. Different situations are presented to address the
problem and the proposed model gives positive results in manipulating with all of these situations. Distributing
knowledge, especially on autonomous agents, solves many problems of keeping and maintaining knowledge in one
place which is a bottle neck of knowledge management.
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October University for University of Knowledge exchange, multi-agent system, knowledge distribution, JADE, FIPA, knowledge exchange protocol, knowledge exchange queries
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