Ontology Negotiation in a Community of Agents

Agents are now seen as playing an important role in realizing two key goals of technology development and deployment within NASA: reducing the lifecycle cost of missions, and enabling new mission concepts. Agents will contribute to the goal of cost reductions by removing the need for certain tasks to be performed by humans. New mission concepts will be enabled through the autonomous capabilities of spacecraft and instruments, and by the ability of scientists to obtain the information they need, seamlessly, when they need it.

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1. Knowledge Evolution, Inc., USA

   Sidney C. Bailin

Editors and Affiliations

1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, USA

   James L. Rash , Walt Truszkowski  & Michael G. Hinchey ,  & 

2. Science Applications International Corporation, 4001 Fairfax Drive, Suite 300, Airlington, VA, 22203, USA

   Christopher A. Rouff

3. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., USA

   Diana Gordon

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