• 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