Ontology and Agent based Approach for Knowledge Management

Abstract

This dissertation deals with ontology based knowledge representation and its use in multi agent systems. It is well known that knowledge has an immense value in all kinds of businesses and people's every day life. The work presented in this thesis aims to make a stronger connection between knowledge management (KM) and multi-agent systems (MAS), mainly by bringing work done in the semantic web area to MAS. The approach taken is to use ontology based knowledge management in multi agent systems, where uncertain knowledge is not present. This is a suitable model for many applications especially where experience management is needed. The CommonKADS methodology and Protégé ontology editor have been used for knowledge modeling, and the OWL ontology for knowledge representation. The Jena library was used for knowledge and data manipulation and the JADE agent system was used for real implementation o