Agent Software Technologies. Standardization of Communicating Agents.

Software Agent Technologies 1

It is by now a cliché that there is no one, universally accepted definition of intelligent agent technology, but a number loosely related techniques. And yet there are certain themes that appear common to agent-based systems, and correspondingly, certain problems that must be addressed and overcome by all agent system builders. The aim of this paper is to briefly survey the tools and techniques...

Communicating Agents in Open Multi Agent Systems

Robust Agent-based Systems Incorporating Teams of Communicating Agents

This project addressed three distinct topics: 1) Building a fault-tolerant multi-agent systems framework inspired by the theory of joint intentions, 2) developing a multi-agent systems framework that directly executes a joint intention specification, 3) exploring the use of multimodal interaction in field and mobile environments. Topic 1 occupied the first two years of this project, while topic...

Innovations in Software Agent-Based B2B Technologies

In recent years, there has been increasing work where intelligent software agents have been used to support electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents also called Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, has mostly been seen in areas such as service discovery and knowledge management , automated negotiation and pricing, auctioning and transactional reasoning , and ...

Communicating With Multiple Agents

Previous dialogue systems have focussed on dia. logues betwe(:n two agents. Many ~q)plications, however, require conversations between several l)articipants. This paper extends speech act deftnit ions to handle mult i -agent conversations, based on a model of mult i -agent belief a t t r ibu t ion with some unique properties. Our approach has |,lie advantage of captur ing a lnnnlmr of interesti...