Semantic Modeling for World-Centered Architectures
Traditional agent-centric architectures struggle to ensure semantic consistency, interpretability, and long-term stability in structured domains such as enterprises and institutional systems. This work proposes the World-centered Multi-Agent System (WMAS), a novel architectural paradigm that centers on the “world” as the primary modeling unit. By constructing a shared and explicit representation of the world, WMAS enables multi-agent learning and coordination grounded in a unified semantic model. Integrating semantic modeling, ontology engineering, and multi-agent coordination techniques, the approach structures world representations along dimensions such as ontological explicitness and normativity, thereby supporting global consistency and verifiable agent behaviors. The effectiveness of WMAS is demonstrated through the Ontobox platform, which validates its capacity to enhance semantic consistency, interpretability, and long-term system stability.