Mission Statement

Mission Statement: The promotion of technologies and interoperability specifications that facilitate the end-to-end inter-working of intelligent agent systems in modern commercial and industrial settings.
Goal: through a combination of speech acts, predicate logic and public ontologies, FIPA can offer standard ways of interpreting communication between agents in a way that respects the intended meaning of the communication. This is much more ambitious than, for example, XML, which only aims to standardize the syntactic structure of documents.