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Environment

The environment in which intelligent agents will be required to work will be highly distributed, heterogeneous, and extremely dynamic. To provide a communication channel to the outside world in such an environment, a communication language must provide tools for coping with heterogeneity and dynamism. It must support interoperability with other languages and protocols. It must support knowledge discovery in large networks. Finally, it must be easily attachable to legacy systems.