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Bringing the Semantic Web home: a research agenda for local, personalized SWUI
We suggest that by taking the Semantic Web local and personal, and deploying it as a shared "data sea" for all applications to trawl, new types of interaction are possible (even necessitated) with this heterogeneous source integration. We present a motivating scenario to foreground the kind of interaction we envision as possible, and outline a series of associated questions about data integration issues, and in particular about the interaction challenges fostered by these new possibilities. We sketch out some early approaches to these questions, but our goal is to identify a wider field of questions for the SWUI community in considering the implications of a local/social semantic web, not just a public one, for interaction
Resolving Distributed Knowledge
Distributed knowledge is the sum of the knowledge in a group; what someone
who is able to discern between two possible worlds whenever any member of the
group can discern between them, would know. Sometimes distributed knowledge is
referred to as the potential knowledge of a group, or the joint knowledge they
could obtain if they had unlimited means of communication. In epistemic logic,
the formula D_G{\phi} is intended to express the fact that group G has
distributed knowledge of {\phi}, that there is enough information in the group
to infer {\phi}. But this is not the same as reasoning about what happens if
the members of the group share their information. In this paper we introduce an
operator R_G, such that R_G{\phi} means that {\phi} is true after G have shared
all their information with each other - after G's distributed knowledge has
been resolved. The R_G operators are called resolution operators. Semantically,
we say that an expression R_G{\phi} is true iff {\phi} is true in what van
Benthem [11, p. 249] calls (G's) communication core; the model update obtained
by removing links to states for members of G that are not linked by all members
of G. We study logics with different combinations of resolution operators and
operators for common and distributed knowledge. Of particular interest is the
relationship between distributed and common knowledge. The main results are
sound and complete axiomatizations.Comment: In Proceedings TARK 2015, arXiv:1606.0729
Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language
We address the issues of semantics and conversations for agent communication
languages and the Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) in particular.
Based on ideas from speech act theory, we present a semantic description for
KQML that associates ``cognitive'' states of the agent with the use of the
language's primitives (performatives). We have used this approach to describe
the semantics for the whole set of reserved KQML performatives. Building on the
semantics, we devise the conversation policies, i.e., a formal description of
how KQML performatives may be combined into KQML exchanges (conversations),
using a Definite Clause Grammar. Our research offers methods for a speech act
theory-based semantic description of a language of communication acts and for
the specification of the protocols associated with these acts. Languages of
communication acts address the issue of communication among software
applications at a level of abstraction that is useful to the emerging software
agents paradigm.Comment: Also in in "Readings in Agents", Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh
(eds), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, In
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