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Ontologies and agents are two topics that raise a particular attention those days from the theoretical as well as from the application point of view. In this paper we present a software gathering service that is mainly supported by an ontology, SoftOnt, and several agents. The main goal of the paper is to show how the SoftOnt ontology is built from distributed and heterogeneous software repositories. In the particular domain considered, software repositories, we advocate for an automatic creation of a global unique ontology versus a manual creation and the use of multiple ontologies.
This work has been supported by CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain [TIC97-0962]), MoviStar (a spanish cellular phone company) and the University of the Basque Country.
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Mena, E., Illarramendi, A., Goñi, A. (2000). Automatic Ontology Construction for a Multiagent-Based Software Gathering Service. In: Klusch, M., Kerschberg, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace. CIA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_21
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