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Specification of the KQML
Agent-Communication Language
plus example agent policies and architectures
The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Initiative
External Interfaces Working Group
In this section, we define several reserved performatives. That is, they are reserved in the sense that if an implementation uses any of the following performative names in a way that is inconsistent with the following performative definitions, then that implementation is not compliant with KQML. The reserved performatives and their meanings are summarized in Table .
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In this section, we describe performative semantics in English prose. Since English prose is often ambiguous and sometimes self-contradictory, we have developed a framework for formal definition of performatives. A full description appears in a separate paper [Genesereth et al.].
Definitions of new performatives should follow the style of the definitions in this section. That is, a definition should convey the following:
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