FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS
APPLICATION SPECIFICATION PROPOSAL
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Foreword
The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (IEEE-FIPA) is an international organization that is dedicated to
promoting the industry of intelligent agents by openly developing specifications supporting interoperability among
agents and agent-based applications. This occurs through open collaboration among its member organizations,
which are companies and universities that are active in the field of agents. IEEE-FIPA makes the results of its
activities available to all interested parties and intends to contribute its results to the appropriate formal standards
bodies.
The members of IEEE-FIPA are individually and collectively committed to open competition in the development of
agent-based applications, services and equipment. Membership in IEEE-FIPA is open to any corporation and
individual firm, partnership, governmental body or international organization without restriction. In particular,
members are not bound to implement or use specific agent-based standards, recommendations and IEEE-FIPA
specifications by virtue of their participation in IEEE-FIPA.
The IEEE-FIPA specifications are developed through direct involvement of the IEEE-FIPA membership. The status
of a specification can be either Preliminary, Experimental, Standard, Deprecated or Obsolete. More detail about
the process of specification may be found in the IEEE-FIPA Procedures for Technical Work. A complete overview
of the IEEE-FIPA specifications and their current status may be found in the IEEE-FIPA List of Specifications. A list
of terms and abbreviations used in the IEEE-FIPA specifications may be found in the IEEE-FIPA Glossary.
IEEE-FIPA is a non-profit association registered in Geneva, Switzerland. As of January 2010, the 54 members of
IEEE-FIPA represented 17 countries worldwide. Further information about IEEE-FIPA as an organization,
membership information, IEEE-FIPA specifications and upcoming meetings may be found at http://www.fipa.org/.
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Abstract
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Contents
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Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................................1
1.1
Scope and objectives ...................................................................................................................................1
1.2
Progress beyond the state-of-the-art ............................................................................................................1
The new <<ACRONIM>> Application Specification.............................................................................................2
2.1
Actors of the Application ...............................................................................................................................2
2.1.1
Application Ontology .............................................................................................................................2
2.2
Existing protocols to be used by the Application ..........................................................................................2
2.2.1
IEEE-FIPA Interaction Protocols ...........................................................................................................2
2.2.2
External Protocols .................................................................................................................................2
2.3
New protocol specifications ..........................................................................................................................2
2.3.1
State Diagrams .....................................................................................................................................2
2.3.2
Message Specifications ........................................................................................................................2
2.3.3
Internal logic of the Agents ....................................................................................................................2
2.3.4
Sequence Diagrams..............................................................................................................................2
2.4
<<ACRONIM>> Application Deployment .....................................................................................................2
3
Application example.............................................................................................................................................3
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References ..........................................................................................................................................................4
Annexes ......................................................................................................................................................................5
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1 Introduction
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1.1
Scope and objectives
<< Explain the concept of your new Application Specification. What are the main ideas that led you to propose it?
Describe in detail the AS objectives. Show how they relate to the needs of its potential users. >>
1.2
Progress beyond the state-of-the-art
<< Describe the state-of-the-art in the area concerned, with references to related Application Specifications.
Highlight the added value of this Application Specification compared with the existing ones. >>
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2 The new <<ACRONIM>> Application Specification
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2.1
Actors of the Application
<< Identify the Agents as well as the users and other entities that are part or interact with the Application. >>
2.1.1 Application Ontology
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2.2
Existing protocols to be used by the Application
2.2.1 IEEE-FIPA Interaction Protocols
<< List the existing Interaction Protocols that are used by the Application, if any. Explain which actors use them and
for which purpose are needed. >>
2.2.2 External Protocols
<<Complete the list of protocols used by the Application Actors, with those that are not specified in the framework of
IEEE-FIPA, if any. >>
2.3
New protocol specifications
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the other existing protocols. In that case, a formal description of the communication among the main actors of the
Application is expected. In case the specific Application Specification proposal does not need to formalise this, skip
this section. >>
2.3.1 State Diagrams
<< Describe each state and each transition of the different Agents that will take part on the system. Include the
graphs to illustrate each diagram state. When needed, describe also the counters and timers that the protocol may
have to use. >>
2.3.2 Message Specifications
<< Formalise all the messages to support the communication among the Actors of the protocol. >>
2.3.3 Internal logic of the Agents
<< Describe the pseudo-code and behaviour of the Agents at state level. >>
2.3.4 Sequence Diagrams
<< Illustrate how the actors of the system might interact among them with the sequence diagrams needed to cover
most possible dialogues. >>
2.4
<<ACRONIM>> Application Deployment
<< Describe how the Application works and show the interaction among the different actors. >>
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3 Application example
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4 References
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[FIPA00023]
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[OMG99]
FIPA Agent Management Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000.
http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00023/
Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages, D. H. Crocker, IETF RFC822, August,
1982.
Date Elements and Interchange Formats, Information Interchange – Representation of Dates and
Times, ISO 8601:1988(E), 1988.
OMG Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP): Common Object Request Broker Architecture Version
2.2, Object Management Group, 1999.
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Annexes
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