One significant limitation in Multi-Agent Systems development methodologies is lack of proper requirements validation. The authors have tried to implement requirement validation in Multi-Agent Systems using ontologies. Organizational Multi-Agent Systems Engineering is used as the agent development methodology. The aim of this paper is to include an appropriate method for validation of the requirements in Multi-Agent System development. In addition to working as a knowledge base, the authors in this paper have used ontologies to support requirements validation. Requirements validation is performed through rules that ascend from requirements and enforcement of these rules is done through a formal language, Semantic Web Rule Language. Genomic Information Retrieval is taken as case study. The Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) framework is used along with the Protégé 5.2.0 for ontology development. Apache Jena API, OWLAPI and SWRLAPI are used for implementation of the Multi-Agent System.

Multi- Agent System, Protégé, Jena, JADE, OWLAPI, SWRLAPI, agent communication, OWL, RDF

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