An Ontology-based Methodology for Communicating Negotiation Agents over Internet

Abstract

In this article we describe a new methodology to facilitate communications between heterogeneous negotiation agents; in particular we present an ontology solution which allows the publication and sharing of communication primitives over Internet. Traditional negotiation systems exchange messages based on particular language definitions implicitly encoded, giving different syntax and semantics to their messages. We implemented a Web service-oriented architecture for executing experiments with different negotiation agents. The results of experiments show that the proposed methodology improves the communication between heterogeneous negotiation agents.