ABSE Slide-9

Syntax vs. Semantics

Semantics (Shoham, Jennings, Woolridge) is subjective.
An agent is something that speaks an ACL - Genesereth and Ketchpel '94
Syntax an important and observable characteristic.

Typed-Message Agents - Petrie '96

Use an Agent Communication Language (ACL)
Distributed computation needs peer-to-peer protocol

Has nothing to do with "autonomy"
Has nothing to do with with mobility.

What's an ACL?

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