DocumentCode
1451053
Title
Agent communication languages: rethinking the principles
Author
Singh, Munindar P.
Author_Institution
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Volume
31
Issue
12
fYear
1998
fDate
12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
40
Lastpage
47
Abstract
Agent communication languages have been used for years in proprietary multiagent systems. Yet agents from different vendors-or even different research projects-cannot communicate with each other. The author looks at the underlying reasons and proposes a conceptual shift from individual agent representations to social interaction
Keywords
high level languages; multi-agent systems; software agents; agent communication; agent communication languages; individual agent representations; multiagent systems; research projects; social interaction; vendors; Application software; Context; Electronic commerce; Information retrieval; Intelligent agent; Knowledge management; Robotic assembly; Search engines; User interfaces; Waste materials;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/2.735849
Filename
735849
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