Facilitating open communication in agent systema: the InfoSleuth infrastructure

摘要

This paper addresses issues in developing open multiagent systems, in which it is easy to expand the functonality by adding new agents with new capabilities, and which facilitate interoperabilituy with other agent systems. We argue that an open multiagent system should define the following support elements for agent communications: A common set of speech acts to define the types of meassages that an agent might send to anoter agent.