Artificial Intelligence
Message management systems: concepts, motivations, and strategic effects
Journal of Management Information Systems
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
Saying and doing: uses of formal languages in the conduct of business
Saying and doing: uses of formal languages in the conduct of business
Message management systems at work: prototypes for business communication
WITS '92 Selected papers of the workshop on Information technologies and systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Categorizing automated messages
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: logic modeling
Presenting XML
A Foundation for Flexible Automated Electronic Communication
Information Systems Research
Semantics for an agent communication language
Semantics for an agent communication language
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Pro-active monitoring of electronic contracts
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Semantic interoperation among data systems at a communication level
Journal on Data Semantics V
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Communication languages for agents are designed to minimize message size and function more as data-passing protocols. Flexibility and transparency have not been emphasized. The author analyzes the formal semantics of KQML as an exemplar of agent communication languages. For each KQML performative he specifies an FLBC message with more or less equivalent effects. The purpose is to compare a standard agent-based language (KQML) with one that more directly represents the meaning of the message. The results indicate that the latter type of language makes message composition more powerful, message decomposition feasible, and defines many more useful messages without adding message types or increasing vocabulary size.