Agent communication transfer protocol

Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt, Christos Stergiou
2000 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents - AGENTS '00  
The idea of agent-oriented middleware is to support high-level communication between computational processes like agents. Such communication requires an interaction protocol, an agent communication language and a transfer protocol. This paper focuses on the third requirement and presents the framework, design and implementation of an Agent Communication Transfer Protocol (ACTP). The ACTP is an application layer protocol designed to facilitate communication between heterogeneous agents. In
more » ... ular, we show how the ACTP supports various ways of communication, logical abstraction of the communication process, platform-independence, a naming convention, reliability in message transfers and a degree of flexibility. In conclusion, we suggest that the ACTP contains the right reliability, flexibility and generality to support high-level interoperability in agent communications and therefore can be useful for standardization in FIPA compliant platforms.
doi:10.1145/336595.337577 dblp:conf/agents/ArtikisPS00 fatcat:j2jjsg4kobcuxdxzuwm675cl5u