Using Ontology to Establish Social Context and Support Social Reasoning

Abstract. Believable agents are required to express human-like characteristics. While most recent research focus on graphics and plan execution, few concen-trate on the issue of flexible interactions by reasoning about social relations. This paper integrates the idea of social constraints with social ontology to pro-vide a machine readable framework as a standard model which can support so-cial reasoning for generic BDI agents. A scenario is illustrated to show how so-cial reasoning can be attained even in different social context.