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What is Service Providing Agent (SPA)

Chapter 93
Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
An agent which is able to provide a service to a planning agent, providing the correct conditions are met.
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Facilitating Interaction between Virtual Agents by Changing Ontological Representation
Fiona McNeill (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK) and Alan Bundy (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch093
Abstract
Fluent, effortless and diverse e-business transactions depend on the ability of automated agents to interact. The difficulties of tailoring representation and information to be consistent and therefore interoperable needs to fall not on human users but on these automated agents. In this chapter, the authors present our system, ORS (Ontology Repair System), which is designed to be a tool for automated agents, acting on behalf of people or systems, which need to interact, to enable them to understand one another, despite the fact that they are not centrally or consistently designed.
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