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FIPA was originally formed as a Swiss based organization in 1996 to produce
software standards specifications for heterogeneous and interacting agents and
agent based systems. Since its foundations, FIPA has played a crucial role in the
development of agents standards and has promoted a number of initiatives and
events that contributed to the development and uptake of agent technology.
Furthermore, many of the ideas originated and developed in FIPA are now
coming into sharp focus in new generations of Web/Internet technology and
related specifications.
FIPA defines a language and support tool. For example, the protocol is used
for communication each other. Software agent technology adopts a high view for
this kind of agent. Many of its ideas root in other way of social interaction, e.g.
the communication between people. The specification is not to define a
communication related basic and mid layer
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s service, for example network
service and transmission service. In fact, the bit series for agent interaction is
supposed to be existent.
For software agent, there is single, general definition. However, the
characteristic of agent actions is broadly accepted. FIPA defines the
communication language to support and facilitate the behaviors. These traits
includes but not limited to the following:
Goal driven activity
Self decision for act process
Interaction through the negotiation and delegation
Mental state model, for example intention belief desire plan and promise
The adaptation to environment and requirement
14.4.1
Agent Communication introduction
The abstract characteristics can be described by agent's mental states
(1) Belief a group of facts which the agent think them true. If agent accepts a
false proposition, it indicates the agent think the proposition is false
(2) Indetermination. It shows the agent can not determine the true or false of the
proposition. Worth the whistle, indetermination do not impede proposition to
adopt some support proposition format, for example, probability. To be more
accurate, indetermination provides a smallest promise mechanism for
different representation methods.
(3) Intention indicates a choice, or a group of characteristics that the desire is
true or current is not true. To accept this intention, the agent will form a
