Fipa Introduction

We give an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA [1]). This talk is based on

1 Introduction

2 Motivation

3 Mission Statement

4 Members

Europe Americas Asia
Europe AEGIS
British Telecommunications
Broadcom France Telecom
Hi-Flier
Lost Wax Ltd.
Minutor Oy
Agentscape
Robert Bosch
GmbH SGI
Soluciones Globales Internet
SiemensAG
Sixth Element Group Ltd.
Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Sonera
Telecom Italia Lab
Telia AB
Teltec Ireland
Tryllian BV
Whitestein Technology
Allen Bradley LLC (Rockwell Automation)
Hewlett Packard Company
IBM Corporation
Intel Corporation
James Odell Associates
MITRE Corporation
Motorola
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Sandia National Lab
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Telcordia Technologies
The Boeing Company WebV2, Inc.
Communication technologies
Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute
Fujitsu Limited
Hitachi
KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
NEC Corporation
Nihon Unisys Ltd.
Nippon Hoso Kyokai
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
OKI Electronic Industry, Co Ltd
Pioneer Electronic Corporation
Toshiba Corp.
Victor Company of Japan, Co. Ltd

5 FIPA Specifications

1. Preliminary 4. Deprecated 5. Obsolete
2. Experimental
3. Standard
  1. Preliminary: Draft under discussion.
  2. Experimental: Approved, fixed for 2 years. Stable. Suitable for implementation.
  3. Standard: Approved and implemented by 2 or more, successfully.
  4. Obsolete: Rendered unnecessary.
  5. Deprecated: Potentially unnecessary.

6 Existing FIPA Specifications

7 Structure of Specifications

Agent-based Applications Abstract Architecture
Agent Communication
Agent Management
Agent Message Transport

8 Agent Message Transport

Agent-1 Agent-2          Agent-3 Agent-4
Message Transport Service Message Transport Service
Message Transport Protocol

9 Agent Management System

Agent-1 Agent Management System Directory Facilitator          Agent-2 Agent Management System Directory Facilitator
Message Transport Service Message Transport Service
Message Transport Protocol

10 Communications

Message
Expressed in an
Agent Communication Language
Sender: Agent-name
Receiver: Agent-name
Message: content


Expressed in a content language
May reference an ontology

URLs

  1. FIPA, http://www.fipa.org
  2. Open Standards for Interoperating Agent-Based Systems., http://www.fipa.org/docs/input/f-in-00023/f-in-00023.html
  3. www.fipa.org, http://www.fipa.org

This talk available at http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/talks/fipaintro/
Copyright © 2009 José M. Vidal . All rights reserved.

07 April 2004, 11:11AM