Hyperglue: Designing High-Level Agent Communication for Distributed Applications

We are building a new communication model and discovery system which will allow agent-based intelligent spaces to interact with one another. This new infrastructure layer, called Hyperglue, coordinates agent actions at a higher level than most agent communication does, providing an interface for communication at the level of “real-world” entities such as people, places, organizations, and information sources. The resulting structure is one which allows these agent communities to interact, while preserving the privacy, privileges, and preferences of the entities they represent. In this paper we describe the rationale for Hyperglue, and present the initial design as an extension of the existing Metaglue agent framework developed at the MIT AI Lab.