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Software Agents                                  

Intelligent Software Agents

One topic in software agent research community is to develop distributed collections of intelligent software agents that cooperate asynchronously to perform goal-directed information retrieval and information integration in support of performing a variety of decision making tasks. Such a collection of agents form an open society of reusable agents that self organize and cooperate in response to task requirements.

To achieve this goal, one of the crucial problems is to specify the capabilities of each agent. Existing agent communication languages such as KQML and FIPA have problems in combining the performatives and content languages. Existing content language KIF is too general to be of practical use. On the other hand, the interoperability provided by CORBA lacks the semantic support. I designed an advertisement language used for agent communication. The purpose is to specify agent capabilities in a higher level so that we can improve the power of agent brokers and matchmakers.

Besides, I worked on the capability matching between agents, which is similar but not identical to signature matching and specification matching between software components. 

Here you can find more information on this topic.