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, 2940 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, 1108 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, 301 downloads.

2000

  1. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets", Proceedings, AAAI Press, August 2000, 2 citations.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2847 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, 2490 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, 3145 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, 3197 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1078 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, 3576 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, 1209 downloads.
  7. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 2559 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, 2823 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, 271 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, 9803 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, 574 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, 2408 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, 2579 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, 2926 downloads, 120 citations.
  7. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 281 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, 304 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, 380 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, 1209 downloads.
  4. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, July 1997, 329 downloads.
  5. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 87 downloads.
  6. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 300 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, 315 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 500 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, 2479 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, 636 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, 1778 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, 593 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, 782 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, 401 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, November 1994, 400 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, 4799 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, 629 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, 1521 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, 3272 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, 1263 downloads.
  3. K. A. Group, "An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language", TechReport, April 1992, 79 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, 3080 downloads, 1202 citations.