FIPA Ontology Service

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FIPA Ontology Service
Francis G. McCabe
Laboratories of America
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Agents and Ontologies

• Each communication may reference a shared
  ontology
• Typically does not contain the Ontology itself
• Many ontology representation languages
• Open Knowledge Base Connectivity
• ACL interface' to OKBC

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Services provided

• Helping a FIPA agent in selecting a shared
  (sub)ontology for communication,
• Creating and updating an ontology, or only some
  terms of an ontology,
• Translating expressions between different
  ontologies (different names with same meanings),
• Responding to queries for relationships between
  terms or between ontologies, and,
• Discovering public ontologies in order to access
  them.

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Reference Model
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Relationships between Ontologies
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FIPA00086

• Ontology service
• OKBC Overview
• What is an Ontology
• Meta-ontology
• Building an Ontology Service Agent
• Building an Ontology

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Wrap up

• FIPA Ontology service gives agent style view
• Based on OKBC
• Allows agents to
• discover ontologies
• manage ontologies
• query terms
• query relationships between ontologies
• FIPA000086 serves as a useful resource for
  building ontologies