KI-Glossar
Das vollständige Wörterbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Speech Act
Fundamental unit of inter-agent communication, representing an intentional action (assertion, request, promise) whose interpretation depends on context and shared conventions.
FIPA-ACL Protocol
Communication standard for autonomous agents defined by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, using speech act performatives to structure semantic exchanges between heterogeneous agents.
Shared Domain Ontology
Consensual formalization of concepts, relations, and axioms of a specific domain, enabling semantic interoperability and unambiguous interpretation of messages exchanged between agents.
Blackboard Architectural Pattern
Indirect communication mechanism where agents read from and write to a structured shared memory, enabling asynchronous coordination and collaborative resolution of complex problems.
KQML (Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language)
Inter-agent communication and interaction layer language for knowledge bases, facilitating information exchange and service invocation through high-level performatives.
Semantics of Communication Protocols
Formal study of the meaning of messages and interaction sequences in multi-agent systems, ensuring that the sender's intention is correctly interpreted by the receiver.
Interaction Mediator
Specialized entity for managing and coordinating communications between agents, applying conduct rules and translating between different protocols or ontologies to ensure interoperability.
Content Language
Syntactic and semantic formalism (e.g., KIF, SL, OWL) used to encode information carried in the body of an inter-agent message, independently of the envelope communication protocol.
Inter-agent Social Contract
Set of explicit or implicit norms, obligations, and sanctions governing communicative and cooperative behaviors within a society of agents, ensuring predictability and reliability of interactions.
Protocol-Oriented Communication
Approach where interactions follow predefined patterns and valid state sequences, enabling formal verification of system properties such as termination or deadlock freedom.
Asynchronous Message System
Communication infrastructure where the sender does not wait for an immediate response, messages being stored in queues to be processed later by the receiver, improving temporal decoupling.
ACL (Agent Communication Language)
High-level formal language, composed of a set of performatives and a message structure, designed to facilitate semantically rich and intentional communication between autonomous software agents.
Contract Net Protocol
High-level interaction protocol for task distribution, where a manager announces a job, receives bids from potential agents, and awards the contract to the most appropriate agent according to predefined criteria.
Operational Semantics of Communication
Definition of an agent's behavior upon receiving a message, specifying internal state changes and triggered actions, ensuring consistent and predictable interpretation of exchanges.
Inter-agent Meta-communication
Communication about communication itself, where agents exchange information about the protocol used, the state of the interaction, or to negotiate and adapt their means of communication.
Registration/Unregistration Protocol
Fundamental communication mechanism allowing an agent to announce its presence, capabilities, and services to a central authority (such as a DF directory) or to its peers, and to properly withdraw from the system.
Langage de requête d'agent (Agent Query Language)
Langage spécialisé pour formuler des questions, des recherches d'informations ou des requêtes de service à destination d'autres agents ou de répertoires, souvent intégré dans des ACL plus larges comme FIPA-ACL.