Jonathan Dale

Given the emergence of new and varied energy producers, consumers, and combinations thereof, software processes and services that work on our behalf must adopt the qualities of intelligent distributed systems to address challenges including: local control of processes, local ownership of data, loose coupling and late binding, authentication and non-repudiation, balancing of competition and cooperation, and graceful degradation. Rational agents provide a basis for achieving the robustness and… Mehr zeigen

Given the emergence of new and varied energy producers, consumers, and combinations thereof, software processes and services that work on our behalf must adopt the qualities of intelligent distributed systems to address challenges including: local control of processes, local ownership of data, loose coupling and late binding, authentication and non-repudiation, balancing of competition and cooperation, and graceful degradation. Rational agents provide a basis for achieving the robustness and efficiency we seek. Agents can be owned by different organizations, can respect boundaries of authority and proprietary control, and can represent appropriate interests while working in concert with other agents and human operators to achieve common goals. This approach supports dynamic, decentralized detection of both faults and opportunities, and enables persistent online simulation and optimization. Veterans of the pioneering Agentcities project, have demonstrated the importance establishing a multi-layer agent communication stack, realized in abstract, intermediate, and instance levels of concreteness. This approach is especially applicable the emerging SmartGrid, which can promote standard business process descriptions among its membership. The paper presents the rationale of the agent communication stack, its relevance to energy grid participants, and outlines a Rational Agent architecture, which provides agent behaviors as services, affording integration with existing and future service-oriented architectures. Weniger anzeigen

The integration of semantic Web and Web services technologies promises to be one of the most promising new areas for development of intelligent Web applications. One challenging area where these technologies meet is in explicit definitions of meaning for the messages exchanged between Web services - in other words, semantic definitions of the meanings of data / commands exchanged in the execution of a Web services based application. While current approaches such as OWL-S tackle these elements… Mehr zeigen

The integration of semantic Web and Web services technologies promises to be one of the most promising new areas for development of intelligent Web applications. One challenging area where these technologies meet is in explicit definitions of meaning for the messages exchanged between Web services - in other words, semantic definitions of the meanings of data / commands exchanged in the execution of a Web services based application. While current approaches such as OWL-S tackle these elements in service groundings by mapping processes to function calls with specific arguments, agent communication languages could provide a potentially richer alternative. The work presented here shows how this could be done by mapping the existing agent communication language (FIPA-ACL, FIPA-SL and associated standards developed by the foundation for intelligent physical agents) into OWL based representations which may then be readily used in a Web services environment. Weniger anzeigen

This paper describes how the Agentcities initiative is being used to develop a rich and dynamic service environment in which user and business tasks can be achieved through ad-hoc service interactions. We present the goals and aims of Agentcities and also detail the development of the Agentcities Network to date. We also describe the future challenges of open, heterogeneous environments and how Agentcities has addressed some of these problems.

This paper provides an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standardisation effort in the area of specifying standards for heterogeneous, interoperating agent‐based systems. JONATHAN DALE and EBRAHIM MAMDANI describe the types of software agents which are of interest to FIPA, the methods by which FIPA members collaborate and produce specifications and also descriptions of the specifications that FIPA has produced. They also list the available implementations of FIPA… Mehr zeigen

This paper provides an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standardisation effort in the area of specifying standards for heterogeneous, interoperating agent‐based systems. JONATHAN DALE and EBRAHIM MAMDANI describe the types of software agents which are of interest to FIPA, the methods by which FIPA members collaborate and produce specifications and also descriptions of the specifications that FIPA has produced. They also list the available implementations of FIPA specifications and applications that use these implementations, as well as the current and future work of FIPA. Weniger anzeigen