Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages

Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language

James Mayfield, Yannis K Labrou, and Tim Finin

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. The Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) is a new language and protocol for exchanging information and knowledge. This work is part of a larger effort, the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, which aims to develop techniques and methodologies for building large-scale knowledge bases that are shareable and reusable. KQML is both a message format and a message-handling protocol to support runtime 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 languages, agent, ai, kqml, multi-agent systems, multiagent system

Type: InCollection

Publisher: Springer

Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

Volume: 1037

Note: DOI: 10.1007/3540608052_77

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