Tags: kqml

Research Areas

  1. Multi-Agent Systems

Publications

2007

  1. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, April 2007, 3027 downloads.

2004

  1. T. Finin, "Agents Meet the Semantic Web on the Wire and in the Aether", Presentation slides, AAAI, July 2004, 206 downloads.

2002

  1. S. Cranefield, S. Willmott, and T. Finin, "Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, March 2002, 1210 downloads.

2001

  1. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Coordinating agents using agent communication languages conversations", InBook, Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications, March 2001, 368 downloads.

2000

  1. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets", Proceedings, AAAI Press, August 2000, 2 citations.
  2. S. Quirolgico, K. Canfield, T. Finin, and J. A. Smith, "Merging Neural Networks in a Multi-Agent System", TechReport, TR EB-2000-01, January 2000, 422 downloads.
  3. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2938 downloads, 9 citations.

1999

  1. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, October 1999, 2563 downloads, 23 citations.
  2. S. Quirolgico, K. Canfield, T. Finin, and J. A. Smith, "Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated aerial reconnaissance system", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications,, October 1999, 3213 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. Y. Peng, T. Finin, H. Chen, L. Wang, Y. K. Labrou, R. S. Cost, B. Chu, V. Cross, M. Russell, W. Tolone, A. Boughannam, and J. McCobb, "An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. Int'l Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (SCI'99/ISAS'99), August 1999, 3270 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1198 downloads.
  5. R. S. Cost, Y. Chen, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and Y. Peng, "Modeling agent conversations with colored petri nets", InProceedings, Working notes of the Autonomous Agents '99 Workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies, May 1999, 3644 downloads, 114 citations.
  6. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, and A. Boughannam, "Agent development with Jackal", InProceedings, Third annual conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1999, 1288 downloads.
  7. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "Agent Communication Languages: the Current Landscape", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 3210 downloads, 446 citations.
  8. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "The Interoperability Problem: Bringing together Mobile Agents and Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences ( HICSS-32), January 1999, 2899 downloads, 29 citations.

1998

  1. M. A. Rabi, T. Finin, A. Sherman, and Y. K. Labrou, "Secure Knowledge Query Manipulation Language: a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", TechReport, UMBC, November 1998, 370 downloads.
  2. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development", InProceedings, Software Tools for Developing Agents: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop, July 1998, 9884 downloads, 61 citations.
  3. M. A. Rabi, "Relationships among security and algebraic properties of cryptographic objects, and a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 1998, 651 downloads.
  4. Y. Peng, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts on interagent communication", Article, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1998, 2471 downloads, 26 citations.
  5. Q. He, K. Sycara, and T. Finin, "Personal Security Agent: KQML-based PKI", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1998, 2647 downloads, 49 citations.
  6. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, B. Chu, J. Long, W. Tolone, and A. Boughannam, "A multi-agent system for enterprise integration", InProceedings, Third International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, March 1998, 3054 downloads, 120 citations.
  7. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 345 downloads.

1997

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Towards a Standard for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November 1997, 403 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 1997, 472 downloads.
  3. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, and E. Miller, "TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents", InProceedings, 4th International conference on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, July 1997, 1291 downloads.
  4. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, E. Miller, and C. Nicholas, "Agent Development Support for Tcl", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, July 1997, 42 downloads.
  5. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, July 1997, 426 downloads.
  6. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 179 downloads.
  7. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 381 downloads.

1996

  1. D. P. McKay, J. Pastor, R. McEntire, and T. Finin, "An architecture for information agents", InProceedings, Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative, December 1996, 412 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 574 downloads, 234 citations.
  3. T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and J. Mayfield, "Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language", InBook, Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, January 1996, 2542 downloads, 47 citations.
  4. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language", InCollection, Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, January 1996, 752 downloads.

1995

  1. J. Mayfield, T. Finin, R. Narayanaswamy, C. Shah, W. MacCartney, and K. Goolsbey, "The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together", InProceedings, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, December 1995, 1856 downloads, 50 citations.
  2. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 677 downloads.
  3. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, A. Potluri, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents", InProceedings, ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 937 downloads.
  4. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995, 513 downloads.

1994

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agents", InProceedings, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 1994, 567 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML as an agent communication language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management , October 1994, 5847 downloads, 2225 citations.
  3. T. Finin, D. P. McKay, R. Fritzson, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InBook, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, September 1994, 747 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InProceedings, 13th Int. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, July 1994, 1631 downloads.

1993

  1. T. Finin, J. Weber, G. Wiedehold, M. Genesereth, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, J. McGuire, R. Pelavin, S. C. Shapiro, and C. Beck, "Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language", TechReport, June 1993, 141 downloads.

1992

  1. R. Patil, R. Fikes, P. Patel-Schneider, D. P. McKay, T. Finin, T. Gruber, and R. Neches, "The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Principles Of Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, August 1992, 3404 downloads, 301 citations.
  2. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, and D. P. McKay, "A Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability", InProceedings, 4th National Symp. on Concurrent Engineering, CE & CALS, June 1992, 1353 downloads.
  3. H. Chalupsky, T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, S. C. Shapiro, and G. Wiedehold, "An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language", TechReport, UMBC, April 1992, 169 downloads.

1991

  1. R. Neches, R. Fikes, T. Finin, T. Gruber, R. Patil, T. Senator, and W. Swartout, "Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing", Article, AI Magazine, August 1991, 3251 downloads, 1202 citations.