%0 Conference Paper %1 packer2010acq %A Packer, Heather S. %A Gibbins, Nicholas %A Jennings, Nicholas R. %B Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2010) %C Washington, DC, USA %D 2010 %E Huang, Jimmy Xiangji %E Ghorbani, Ali A. %E Hacid, Mohand-Said %E Yamaguchi, Takahira %I IEEE Computer Society %K amendment ontology %P 89--96 %R 10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.90 %T Collaborative Learning of Ontology Fragments by Co-operating Agents %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.90 %X Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontologies. Thus, techniques that enable agents to build shared vocabularies allow them to share and learn new concepts, and are therefore beneficial when these concepts are required on multiple occasions. However, if this is not carried out in an effective manner then the performance of an agent may be adversely affected by the time required to infer over large augmented ontologies, so causing problems in time-critical scenarios such as search and rescue. In this paper, we present a new technique that enables agents to augment their ontology with carefully selected concepts into their ontology. We contextualise this generic approach in the domain of RoboCup Rescue. Specifically, we show, through empirical evaluation, that our approach saves more civilians, reduces the percentage of the city burnt, and spends the least amount of time accessing its ontology compared with other state of the art benchmark approaches. %@ 978-0-7695-4191-4

@inproceedings{packer2010acq, abstract = {Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontologies. Thus, techniques that enable agents to build shared vocabularies allow them to share and learn new concepts, and are therefore beneficial when these concepts are required on multiple occasions. However, if this is not carried out in an effective manner then the performance of an agent may be adversely affected by the time required to infer over large augmented ontologies, so causing problems in time-critical scenarios such as search and rescue. In this paper, we present a new technique that enables agents to augment their ontology with carefully selected concepts into their ontology. We contextualise this generic approach in the domain of RoboCup Rescue. Specifically, we show, through empirical evaluation, that our approach saves more civilians, reduces the percentage of the city burnt, and spends the least amount of time accessing its ontology compared with other state of the art benchmark approaches.}, acmid = {1913828}, added-at = {2011-10-06T01:20:18.000+0200}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Packer, Heather S. and Gibbins, Nicholas and Jennings, Nicholas R.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f1b54bf1ec6ea950d1d8308a3eba1b38/utahell}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2010)}, description = {Collaborative Learning of Ontology Fragments by Co-operating Agents}, doi = {10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.90}, editor = {Huang, Jimmy Xiangji and Ghorbani, Ali A. and Hacid, Mohand-Said and Yamaguchi, Takahira}, interhash = {53f8dfb2fd41f6487dcdc9100c371a48}, intrahash = {f1b54bf1ec6ea950d1d8308a3eba1b38}, isbn = {978-0-7695-4191-4}, keywords = {amendment ontology}, numpages = {8}, pages = {89--96}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, timestamp = {2011-12-16T15:16:23.000+0100}, title = {Collaborative Learning of Ontology Fragments by Co-operating Agents}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.90}, year = 2010 }