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Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
KQML as an agent communication language
October 29, 1994
This paper describes the design of and experimentation with the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML), a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. This work is part of a larger effort, the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, which is aimed at developing techniques and methodology for building large-scale knowledge bases that are shareable and reusable. KQML is both a message format and a message-handling protocol to support run-time knowledge sharing among agents. KQML focuses on an extensible set of performatives that defines the permissible “speech acts” agents may use and provides a substrate for developing higher-level models of interagent interaction, such as contract nets and negotiation. In addition, KQML provides a basic architecture for knowledge sharing through a special class of agent called communication facilitators, which coordinate the interactions of other agents. The ideas that underlie the evolving design of KQML are currently being explored through experimental prototype systems used to support several testbeds in areas such as concurrent engineering, intelligent design, and intelligent planning and scheduling.
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ACM Press
DOI: 10.56553/POPETS-2024-0081
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