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# OAS'01
Ontologies in Agent Systems

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems,
5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents
Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001.

Edited by

### Stephen Cranefield *
Tim Finin #
Steve Willmott +

* Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
# Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
+ Département d'Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

## Table of Contents

### Workshop Overview

1. Overview of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems
   Stephen Cranefield, Steven Willmott and Tim Finin

### Invited Presentations

1. DAML Ontologies for Agent-Enabled Web Services
   Sheila Mcllraith
2. Where is the Semantics in the Semantic Web?
   Michael Uschold
3. Protégé-2000: A Flexible and Extensible Ontology-Editing Environment
   Natalya Noy

### Long Papers

1. Ontology Negotiation between Agents Supporting Intelligent Information Management
   Sidney C. Bailin and Walt Truszkowski
2. UML-Based Ontology Modelling for Software Agents
   Stephen Cranefield, Stefan Haustein and Martin Purvis
3. Generating Ontology-Specific Content Languages
   Stephen Cranefield and Martin Purvis
4. OntoMap: Upper-Ontology Service Agent
   Marin Dimitrov, Atanas Kiryakov and Kiril Simov
5. Ontological modelling of Natural Categories:an Ant Colony
   Cesáreo Gutiérrez-Casorrán, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis and Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar
6. Supporting Development of Software Agents By Integrating Heterogeneous Repositories Based on Ontologies
   Noriaki Izumi and Takahira Yamaguchi
7. Implementation of FIPA Ontology Service
   Hiroki Suguri, Eiichiro Kodama, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Nunokawa and Shoichi Noguchi
8. A Conceptual Model to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems
   Valentina Tamma and Trevor Bench-Capon
9. Multilingual Agents: Ontologies, Languages and Abstractions
   Steven Willmott, Ion Constantinescu and Monique Calisti

### Short Papers and Position Statements

1. The Role of Ontologies in Electronic Institutions and Reusable Knowledge Components
   Josep Lluís Arcos
2. Using Meta-Model Technologies to Organize Functionalities for Active System Schemes
   Erwan Breton and Jean Bézivin
3. What if a Wastewater Treatment Plant Were a Town of Agents
   Luigi Ceccaroni
4. Ontology for Coordinating Dialogs in Distance Learning Environments
   Marco A. Eleuterio and Jean-Paul Barthès
5. Mediating Ideas in an Agent-based Team for Business Process Reengineering: Toward a Linguistic Ontology
   Alexandra Galatescu
6. GlaxoSmithKline Position Paper for Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems
   Robin McEntire
7. Developing an Ontology and ACL in an Agent-based GIS
   James J. Nolan, Robert Simon and Arun K. Sood
8. Agent-based Structures, Agent Ontology Preservation and Enterprise Modeling
   Cyrus F. Nourani
9. A Note on Process Ontology for Agents
   Chris Nowak
10. Semantic Resolution for E-Commerce
    Yun Peng and Nenad Ivezic
11. An Ontology for User Support in The Materials Microcharacterization Collaboratory
    Line Pouchard, Omer Rana and David Walker
12. The DoD Ontology Gap - Applications of Agent Technology in the Military
    Dale W. Richards and Mark Gorniak
13. An Informational Model for Cooperative Information Gathering
    Hassan Tout
14. Barriers to Effective Agent Communication
    Michael Uschold

submitted by S. Cranefield, September 19, 2001