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FACL : A Form-based Agent Communication Language
for Enduser-Initiative Agent-Based Application Development,
ABSTRACT of the paper : COMPSAC'2000, IEEE Computer Society, (Oct. 2000).
The number of endusers using the Internet increases on the inside and outside
of offices. Enduser-initiative development of applications has become
important for automation of their own tasks. As the solution based on the
philosophy :
``All routine work both at office and at home should be carried
out by computers,''
This paper describes a multi-agent framework and an agent
communication language(ACL) for the MOON(multiagent-oriented office network)
systems which are distributed systems including window work in B-to-C and
B-to-B electronic commerce. The multi-agent framework is a Java application
framework and includes a form-based ACL(FACL) as a common protocol for passing
application forms and the three kinds of agents working at client terminals,
server-at-windows and the MOON servers respectively.
FACL has very simple
message structure of (who, what, how, which) because FACL was designed based
on the simple concept that
``one service = one form.''
FACL is used primarily
for window task sending or receiving written forms between a client agent and
a domain expert agent. In addition, broker agents and mobile agents of MOON
servers participate in these communications for directory services and form
delivery services. FACL brings high interoperability among distributed
application systems based on agent technologies, and promotes that endusers
themselves develop their agents by teaching agents what to do.
Key words :
multi-agent, agent communication language, application framework,
object-oriented technology, electronic commerce
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