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Agent Models and Different User Ontologies for an Electronic Market Place

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In this paper the agent-based electronic market architecture GEMS is described. The market incorporates different user perspectives: consumers, retailers, and producers. Ontologies for the different user perspectives are included. Knowledge is included to relate information from the different perspectives; for example, evaluation knowledge that can be used to derive product evaluations in terms of user ontology from product information based on producer ontology. Agent models are used as a high-level design structure for the architecture. It is shown how this combination of agent models, ontologies and knowledge provides an adequate approach to the distributed and knowledge-intensive character of the application.

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    Marcel Albers & Mehrzad Karami

  2. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Catholijn M. Jonker & Jan Treur

  3. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Treur

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Albers, M., Jonker, C., Karami, M. et al. Agent Models and Different User Ontologies for an Electronic Market Place. Knowledge and Information Systems 6, 1–41 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-002-0092-3

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