  In this work we propose an ontology to support automated negotiation in
multiagent systems. The ontology can be connected with some domain-specific
ontologies to facilitate the negotiation in different domains, such as
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), e-commerce, etc. The specific
negotiation rules for each type of negotiation strategy can also be defined as
part of the ontology, reducing the amount of knowledge hardcoded in the agents
and ensuring the interoperability. The expressiveness of the ontology was
proved in a multiagent architecture for the automatic traffic light setting
application on ITS.
