Combining FIPA ACL With DAML+OIL – A Case Study: Agent Communication with CIA;FIPA ACL; Techniques of the Semantic Web

Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Bologna

计算机科学;社会科学（总论）

Michael Schalk ; Thorsten Liebig ; Torsten Illmann ; Frank Kargl

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-66/oas02-19.pdf
PID  :  18676

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The Collaboration and Coordination Infrastructure for per- sonal Agents (CIA) is a Java-based multi-agent framework for personal assistance. Until now, inter-agent communi- cation in CIA is done via topic-based communication chan- nels with Java-based event classes. Information within these events is represented in proprietary classes, which are seri- alized for transfer. As a result, agent communication is lim- ited to an a priori dened domain of information chunks to which collaborating agents have to be tailored. In order to achieve wider inter-operability we are currently evaluating the combination of two techniques. For standardized com- munication between heterogeneous agents we will use the FIPA Agent Communication Language (ACL). The DARPA Agent Communication Language / Ontology Inference Layer (DAML+OIL1) will serve as content language for the ACL. This architecture seems to be a promising combination be- cause of two reasons. First, agents of this kind are able to collaborate with other heterogenous agents in an ad hoc manner because of the standardized FIPA communication interface. Second, they do not have to be tailored to pro- prietary content vocabularies in advance, because they can use ontology-based Semantic Web techniques as a mecha- nism for identication of the meaning of the terms they communicate. However, it has to be gured out if these two techniques t seamlessly into a given agent architecture like CIA. Potential problems include the semantic compat- ibility of DAML and ACL for example. These and other questions have to be considered with respect to the highly dynamic infrastructure of a CIA system.