Facilitating agent apparatus and agent system equipped with the same
First Claim
1. A facilitating agent apparatus for allowing a message to be exchanged among a plurality of agents, comprising:
- a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge;
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus; and
a message conversion section for abstracting knowledge contained in the received message, so as to create knowledge to be contained in the retransmission message.
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Abstract
In a facilitating agent apparatus, a message processing section and an element processing section replace knowledge transmitted from another agent apparatus by a superior concept, combine the knowledge with another knowledge, transform ontology, or the like, based on meta-knowledge accumulated in a meta-knowledge storing section, and transmit the resulting knowledge to still another agent apparatus. Furthermore, if transmitted knowledge is denied, the message processing section and the element processing section create a message for denying their own knowledge transmitted to another agent apparatus, based on the denied knowledge.
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10 Claims
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1. A facilitating agent apparatus for allowing a message to be exchanged among a plurality of agents, comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge;
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus; and
a message conversion section for abstracting knowledge contained in the received message, so as to create knowledge to be contained in the retransmission message.
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2. A facilitating agent apparatus for allowing a message to be exchanged among a plurality of agents, comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge; and
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus, wherein the message processing section creates the retransmission message only when receiving a received message containing a predetermined range of knowledge. - View Dependent Claims (3)
the message transmission/receiving section transmits the retransmission message only to a facilitating agent apparatus sharing knowledge among other facilitating agent apparatuses.
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4. A facilitating agent apparatus for allowing a message to be exchanged among a plurality of agents, comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge;
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus;
a knowledge storing section for storing the knowledge of the facilitating agent apparatus; and
an own-knowledge transmission message creating section for creating a message for transmitting knowledge stored in the knowledge storing section to another facilitating agent apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7)
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8. An agent system comprising a plurality of facilitating agent apparatuses for propagating knowledge among the facilitating agent apparatuses, each agent comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge;
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus; and
a message conversion section for abstracting knowledge contained in the received message, so as to create knowledge to be contained in the retransmission message.
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9. An agent system comprising a plurality of facilitating agent apparatuses for propagating knowledge among the facilitating agent apparatuses, each agent comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge; and
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus, wherein the message processing section creates the retransmission message only when receiving a received message containing a predetermined range of knowledge.
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10. An agent system comprising a plurality of facilitating agent apparatuses for propagating knowledge among the facilitating agent apparatuses, each agent comprising:
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a message transmission/receiving section for transmitting/receiving a message to/from another agent apparatus;
a meta-knowledge storing section for accumulating meta-knowledge;
a message processing section for converting a received message based on the meta-knowledge, so as to create a retransmission message for transmitting a content of the received message to another agent apparatus;
a knowledge storing section for storing the knowledge of the facilitating agent apparatus; and
an own-knowledge transmission message creating section for creating a message for transmitting knowledge stored in the knowledge storing section to another facilitating agent apparatus.
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