Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language

Tim Finin, Yannis K Labrou, and James Mayfield

January 1, 1996

This chapter discusses the desirable features of languages and protocols for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata are divided into seven categories: form, content, semantics, implementation, networking, environment and reliability. TheKnowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) is a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. This work is partof a larger effort, the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, which is aimed at developing techniques and methodologies for building large-scale knowledge bases that are sharable and reusable. KQML is both a message format and a message-handling protocol to support run-time knowledge sharing among agents. KQML is described and evaluated as an agent communication language relative to the desiderata.

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Tags: agent communication, agent, kqml

Type: InBook

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

Michael Wooldrifge, Jörg P. Müller, and Milind Tambe

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Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

Volume: 1037

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