Ontologies used for competence management

Abstract

Developing multi-agent systems requires an adequate modeling of knowledge in order that the agents and the human person are able to understand and accept the concepts of domain area in the same way. Ontologies allow developing an coherent framework for a specified domain. Based on the concepts used ant the relations between them, the agents are able to understand, reason and act in the domain in order to accomplish their goals and finally the system functions. Based on appropriate ontologies defined for a particular domain, a multi-agent system that allows managing, searching and matching the user competences with the existent competences is presented.