Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles

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Munindar P. Singh
IEEE Computer 31(12), pages 40–47
December 1998

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.