Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the requesting agent should know: 1) the service provider’s interface; 2) the ontology that defines concepts used by the provider; and 3) the agent communication language (ACL) the agent uses so that it can parse and understand the communication. Currently deployed Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) encode the interface description and the ontology within a service provider’s capability description (or advertisement) that is registered with a Middle Agent; however, this assumes a common ACL between communicating agents. We demonstrate how agents can communicate with each other using a template-based shallow parsing approach to constructing and decomposing messages, thus relaxing assumptions on the ACLs and message formats used.
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Payne, Terry R.
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Paolucci, Massimo
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Singh, Rahul
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2002
Payne, Terry R.
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Singh, Rahul
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Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul and Sycara, Katia
(2002)
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents.
The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy.
15 - 19 Jul 2002.
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Abstract
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the requesting agent should know: 1) the service provider’s interface; 2) the ontology that defines concepts used by the provider; and 3) the agent communication language (ACL) the agent uses so that it can parse and understand the communication. Currently deployed Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) encode the interface description and the ontology within a service provider’s capability description (or advertisement) that is registered with a Middle Agent; however, this assumes a common ACL between communicating agents. We demonstrate how agents can communicate with each other using a template-based shallow parsing approach to constructing and decomposing messages, thus relaxing assumptions on the ACLs and message formats used.
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Published date: 2002
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Event Dates: July 15th - July 19th
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The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2002-07-15 - 2002-07-19
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Electronics & Computer Science
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Local EPrints ID: 257340
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/257340
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Terry R. Payne
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Massimo Paolucci
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Rahul Singh
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Katia Sycara
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