Agent communication languages such as KQML and the FIPA ACL serve as metalanguages to define software agent message-passing protocols. These metalanguages are incompatible with eac...
Observation and communication are important aspects of agent teamwork. We employ the agent’s observability as the major means for individual agents to reason about the environme...
In mostcases natural languageprocessingis seen as an isolated cognitive capability of a system. Languageunderstandingis often restricted to the mappingof natural languageexpressio...
The purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of ADF, an open source agent developing platform with a focus on agent collaboration. The basic architecture of th...
This paper proposes a coordination model, for both nd mobile agents, based on abstract structures called Communicators, entities which handle agent dialogue performed through ACL ...