(1) A software agent ontology is the ontological specification of the domain of the agent itself, including the terminology, entities, interfaces, and activities that define the behavior of the agent and how it interacts with the world around the agent as well as how to reason about the agent and its domain.
(2) A software agent ontology is a specification of a domain that can be accessed by a software agent. A software agent may use one or more ontologies to access and reason about the world around it, including other software agents, web resources, web services, or merely conceptual domains that either don't really exist or are not directly accessible to the agent.
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