Modeling JADE agents from GAIA methodology under the perspective of semantic web

Abstract

Building multi-agent software systems is pointed out as a high complex task and researchers have raised different issues for building several applications. Therefore several AOSE methodologies and MAS frameworks have been proposed to facilitate the hard task of modeling and building high complex systems. However, those methodologies in an attempt to model complex systems end up being hard to use and to ensure the consistency between each part. On the other hand, ontologies have been considered useful for representing the knowledge of software engineering techniques and methodologies in order to provide an unambiguous terminology that can be shared, reusable, and ensure the consistence between the concepts involved. This paper proposes ontologies for specifying agents through the use of GAIA methodology, JADE Framework and SWRL rules to map the instances from GAIA ontology to JADE ontology. Finally, it is presented a case study and a discussion to demonstrate their use. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.