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Currently, many kinds of information agents for different purposes exist. However, agents from different systems are still unable to cooperate, even if they accurately follow a common standard like FIPA, KIF or KQML. Being able to plug agents together with little effort and exchange information easily, would be of a great use for several reasons. Among others, the agents could profit from each others’ services. In addition, certain aspects of multi-agent systems could be evaluated without needing to build a complete system. Testing agent systems with standard components would allow simpler comparison. Furthermore, building different agent-based applications would be simplified by combining new software with “off the shelf”-components. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of practical software development and integration of existing systems, without developing “yet another abstract agent architecture”.
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Haustein, S., Lüdecke, S. (2000). Towards Information Agent Interoperability. In: Klusch, M., Kerschberg, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace. CIA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_19
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