A standardization effort for agent technologies: The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents and its activities

Author

Suguri, H.

Author_Institution

Comtec Corp., Sendai, Japan

Volume

Track8

fYear

1999

fDate

5-8 Jan. 1999

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to advertise the activities of The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). FIPA is established to promote the development of standard specifications of generic agent technologies that maximize the interoperability within and across agent-based applications. First, the paper touches the need of standardization for intelligent agents and introduces the framework of FIPA. Secondly, current technical outcome of FIPA´s standardization efforts, the FIPA 97 specifications, is discussed. Thirdly, relationship to other bodies and activities such as Agent Society, ARPA KSE and OMG is presented. Lastly, the paper outlines future plans and open issues which are currently (as of September, 1998) discussed to produce the next version of specifications: FIPA 97 version 2 and FIPA 98.

Keywords

formal specification; open systems; software agents; standardisation; ARPA KSE; Agent Society; FIPA 97 specifications; OMG; The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents; agent-based applications; generic agent technologies; intelligent agents; interoperability; standard specifications; standardization; Application software; Buildings; Communication standards; Databases; Intelligent agent; Logic; Personal digital assistants; Standardization; Standards development; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1999.773093

Filename

773093