Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A semantics approach for KQML—a general purpose communication language for software agents
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Core Jini
A declarative approach to business rules in contracts: courteous logic programs in XML
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction, Second Edition
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction, Second Edition
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape
IEEE Intelligent Systems
An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language
Issues in Agent Communication
Rule-Driven Coordination Agents: A Self-Configurable Agent Architecture for Distributed Control
ISADS '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
A model for parallel data mining based on multi-agent
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
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Agent communication has developed widely over the past decade for various types of multiple agent environments. Originally, most of this research surrounded simulation systems and inference systems. Subsequently, agents are expected to adapt to, dynamically create, and understand evolving conversation policies. This concept of agent communication is not completely necessary in some domains, especially in domains where the policy of interaction is essentially static. One such domain is that of distributed workflow management with implications into Electronic Commerce. In this domain, agents are "middle-agents" that represent the distributed components that implement each individual workflow step. By representing the component-based services of each step, multiple distributed agents can essentially manage a workflow or supply chain that spans several on-line businesses (B2B). The WARP (Workflow-Automation through Agent-Based Reflective Processes) architecture is a multi-agent architecture developed to support distributed workflow management environments where distributed components are used to implement each of the workflow steps. This paper describes a software engineering process for integrating new component-based services into a static workflow-based ontology. Furthermore, the interaction protocol and supporting implementation based on the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) are presented. This agent communication architecture is implemented with the latest in Sun MicroSystems' Jini technology.