Agent-Oriented Software Construction

Communication between agents:

- "social ability"

- There are many protocols for inter-agent communication.

KQML (Knowledge Query Manipulation Language)

The information needed to understand the communication is included in the message itself. Some header exists that allows for the understand of the rest of the message.

FIPA ACL (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents - Agent Communication Language)

- FIPA
- Created to promote "technologies and interoperability specifications that facilitate the end-to-end inter-working of intelligent systems in modern commercial and industrial setting."
- Goal : "To overcome the destructive competition between incoherent concurrent proprietary technologies in the marketplace."