Concept and Knowledge Management Project

Agents are autonomous entities capable of making decisions independently. They can be proactive, purposeful and exhibit goal-directed behaviour, as well as reactive and responsive to changes in the environment. They can interact and modify their environments, and most importantly they can interact with other agents.

For an agent to be successful even in moderately complex environments they require a concept modeling and management component. Concept management is particularly important if the agent needs to interact and communicate with other agents. In order for agents to communicate effectively they must share concepts, and attribute the same meaning to those shared concepts.

Concept management is a new area of research that is related to computer-mediated communication, ontologies, knowledge management, software agents, software engineering and machine learning. Important applications can be found in a wide range areas including psychology, marketing, cognitive science, robotics, information retrieval, the semantic web, and ebusiness.

Agent-Oriented Concept Management
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2002 - 2005 with Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science.

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