Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language
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چکیده
This chapter discusses the desirable features of languages andprotocols for communicationamong intelligent informationagents. These desiderata aredividedintosevencategories: form,content, semantics, implementation,networking, environment, and reliability. TheKnowledgeQueryandManipulation Language (KQML) is a newlanguage and protocol for exchanging information andknowledge.Thiswork is partof a larger e ort, theARPAKnowledgeSharingE ort,whichis aimedatdevelopingtechniquesandmethodologiesforbuildinglarge{scale knowledgebases thataresharableandreusable.KQMLis botha messageformatandamessage{handlingprotocoltosupportrun{timeknowledge sharingamongagents.KQMLis describedandevaluatedas anagent communicationlanguagerelative tothedesiderata. Toappearin IntelligentAgentsVolumeII {Proceedingsof the1995Workshopon AgentTheories, Architectures, andLanguages.M.Wooldridge, J. P.Muller and M.Tambe(eds).LectureNotes inArti cial Intelligence,Springer-Verlag,1996.
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