Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce

Using semantic web technology in multi-agent systems: a case study in the TAGA trading agent environment

Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, and Rong Pan

September 30, 2003

Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is the framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi-agent environment based on FIPA-compliant platforms. TAGA uses the semantic web languages and tools (RDF and OWL) to specify and publish the underlying common ontologies as a content language within FIPA ACL messages, as the basis for agent knowledge bases via XSB-based reasoning tools, and to describe and reason about services. TAGA extends the FIPA protocols to support open market auctions and enriches the Agentcities with auction services. The introduction of the semantic web languages improves the interoperability among agents. TAGA is intended as a platform for research in multi-agent systems, the semantic web, and automated trading in dynamic markets, as well as a self-contained application for teaching and experimentation with these technologies.

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Tags: agent, agent, auction, ecommerce, fipa, multiagent, owl, rdf, semantic web, tac, trading agent

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery

Organization: ACM

Note: DOI: 10.1145/948005.948018

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