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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 Up: DRAFT

Specification of the KQML

Agent-Communication Language

plus example agent policies and architectures

The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Initiative

External Interfaces Working Group Next: Preface

Contents

• Notice of DRAFT status.
• General comments.
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
  • KQML Transport Assumptions
• KQML String Syntax
  • KQML string syntax in BNF
• KQML Semantics
• Reserved Performative Parameters
• Reserved Performative Names
  • Basic informative performatives
  • Database performatives
  • Basic responses
  • Basic query performatives
  • Multi-response query performatives
  • Basic effector performatives
  • Generator performatives
  • Capability-definition performatives
  • Notification performatives
  • Networking performatives
  • Facilitation performatives
• Proposed Performatives
• References
• Example Agent Policies
• Example Agent Architectures and Implementations
  • Content-based routing architecture (ala DRPI)
  • Agent-Based System Engineering (ABSE)
  • Palo Alto Collaborative Testbed
  • Information bus architecture (ala TIB)
• KQML APIs and Alternate Syntaxes
  • The ABSE Lisp API
  • The DRPI TCP/IP API
  • KQeMaiL
  • CORBA dynamic invocation interface
• Future Work
• About this document ...