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Facilitating virtual interaction through flexible representation

Fiona Mcneill, Alan Bundy

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Fluent, effortless and diverse e-business transactions depend on the ability of systems to interact automatically. The difficulties of tailoring representation and information to be consistent and therefore interoperable needs to fall not on human users but on automated systems. In this paper, we present our system, ORS, 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. BACKGROUND It is universally acknowledged that the problem of integration of information across large communities is a difficult and pressing one, particularly when these communities are disparate, wide-spread and not under centralised control, such as in the Semantic Web. The simplest solution to this problem is the enforcement of a single ontology: a single view of the world. However, even if all users subscribe to a single ontology, integration problems still exist, as changes and updates are made and users tweak the ontology to fit their own needs. If the agents interacting are from different organisations or fields, even attempting to use a single ontology is usually neither practical nor desirable. Users need to develop a representation that is best for their own data and they need to maintain and update that data locally. The problem of ontology matching has been widely studied and powerful solutions are available (see (Shvaiko and Euzenat, 2005) for a comprehensive survey and

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Mcneill, F., & Bundy, A. (2014). Facilitating virtual interaction through flexible representation.

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Mcneill, Fiona, and Alan Bundy. “Facilitating virtual interaction through flexible representation.” 2014.

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@article{mcneill2014facilitating,
  title = {{Facilitating virtual interaction through flexible representation}},
  author = {Mcneill, Fiona and Bundy, Alan},
  year = {2014}
}

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