Stefan Poslad
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 2(4), pages 1–24, article 15 (24 pages)
November 2007
Multi-Agent-Systems or MAS represent a powerful distributed computing model, enabling agents to cooperate and complete with each other and to exchange both semantic content and a semantic context to more automatically and accurately interpret the content. Many types of individual agent and MAS models have been proposed since the mid-1980s, but the majority of these have led to single developer homogeneous MAS systems. For over a decade, the FIPA standards activity has worked to produce public MAS specifications, acting as a key enabler to support interoperability, open service interaction, and to support heterogeneous development. The main characteristics of the FIPA model for MAS and an analysis of design, design choices and features of the model is presented. In addition, a comparison of the FIPA model for system interoperability versus those of other standards bodies is presented, along with a discussion of the current status of FIPA and future directions.
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Multi-Agent systems, autonomy, semantics, social interaction, specifications, deployment
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ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
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AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing
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Special Issue on the AgentLink III Technical Forums (special issue, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney