ZEUS: a toolkit and approach for building distributed multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Dealing with interoperability for agent-based services
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Interaction patterns and observable commitments in a multi-agent trading scenario
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Semantic Issues in the Verification of Agent Communication Languages
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Specifying protocols for multi-agent systems interaction
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
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A prolific number of different Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and associated applications have been developed in numerous research institutes and industrial laboratories world-wide. Perhaps the most important barrier to MAS making a successful transition form this research environment towards widespread adoption for consumer products and businesses, is the lack of interoperability between heterogeneous MA Systems. In 1996, the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) was formed to provide a forum for developing specifications for agent systems. Since its formation, FIPA has increasingly focussed more on standardizing (multi-agent system) agent interoperability. As a result, it is often said that FIPA really stands for the Foundation for InteroPerable Agents. In this article, we discuss both technical and scientific issues in defining standards for interoperability between agents in different MA systems with a particular focus on the FIPA agent interoperability standards.