Agent Communication

11/8/97


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Table of Contents

Agent Communication

What is an agent?

an emerging system-building paradigm

So, what’s a software agent?

Agent Communication

Some ACLs

Knowledge Sharing Effort

Knowledge Interchange Format

Common Semantics Shared Ontologies and Ontolingua

Conceptual Schemas

Ontology Library and Editing Tools

KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language

A KQML Message

Semantics for tell(A,B,X)

Agent Communication Issues

Communication Issues

Agent standards

Components

Communicating mobile agents?

How to motivate this

Semantic web markup with SHOE

URL Agents speak for one or more related web pages

Example

Course Ontology

PPT Slide

Sounds good in theory, but...

Language learning and evolution

Conclusion

Some key ideas

References

Backup

KIF Syntax and Semantics

KSE Methodology for developing agent-based systems

Agent architecture

Agent communication language

Agent interaction protocols

Agent knowledge

Do we really need semantics for an ACL?

So, what do we mean by “semantics”?

So, what constitutes the Semantic Description?

How to describe agents’ states?

How to describe agents’ states?

Some explaining regarding the mental attitudes (part I)

Some explaining regarding the mental attitudes (part II)

Semantics for TELL

Semantics for the proactive-TELL

The case of KD45 semantics for BEL

Conversation Policies

Other ACLs and semantic approaches

KQML Semantics Conclusion

Author: Tate Redding

Email: finin@umbc.edu

Home Page: http://umbc.edu/~finin