DocumentCode
1498297
Title
Agent communication languages: the current landscape
Author
Labrou, Yannis ; Finin, Tim ; Peng, Yun
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Volume
14
Issue
2
fYear
1999
Firstpage
45
Lastpage
52
Abstract
Despite the substantial number of multiagent systems that use an agent communication language, the dust has not yet settled over the ACL landscape. Although semantic specification issues have monopolized the debate, other important pragmatic issues must be resolved quickly if ACLs are to support the development of robust agent systems. We introduce some concepts useful in discussing agent communication languages and then compare and evaluate the two major ACLs
Keywords
high level languages; multi-agent systems; ACL; agent communication languages; multiagent systems; robust agent systems; semantic specification; Concrete; Context; Defense industry; Intelligent agent; Software systems; Software tools; Speech; Standards development; TCPIP; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1094-7167
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/5254.757631
Filename
757631
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