Glossario IA
Il dizionario completo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale
FIPA-ACL
Standardized communication language by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, enabling intelligent agents to exchange structured messages with formal semantics.
KQML
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language, a communication language and protocol for multi-agent systems facilitating the exchange of information and knowledge between autonomous agents.
Communicative act
Fundamental unit of interaction between agents representing a specific communicative intention such as informing, requesting, or proposing within the framework of speech act theory.
Performative
Type of communicative act in FIPA-ACL or KQML that defines the intention of the message (e.g., inform, request, propose) and determines how the recipient should interpret and process the communication.
Interaction protocol
Set of rules structuring the sequences of exchanges between agents to accomplish collaborative tasks, such as negotiation or contract protocols.
Semantics of communicative acts
Set of formal rules defining the precise meaning of performatives and the conditions for their correct use in inter-agent exchanges.
Content language
Formal language used to encode the semantic content of messages in inter-agent communications, regardless of the communication protocol used.
Communicating agent
Intelligent agent equipped with communication capabilities allowing it to send, receive, and interpret messages according to an established communication protocol.
ACL Message
Standardized message structure following FIPA-ACL syntax, containing a performative, parameters like sender, receiver and formatted content.
Inter-agent dialogue
Structured sequence of communicative exchanges between two or more agents following established conversational conventions to achieve a common goal.
FIPA communication infrastructure
Set of services and components standardized by FIPA supporting communication between agents, including the message system (AMS) and directory services (DF).
Agent pragmatics
Study of usage contexts and communicative intentions in interactions between agents, influencing the interpretation and processing of messages.
Inter-agent agreement
Formalized mutual commitment between agents resulting from a communication sequence, establishing obligations and reciprocal behavioral expectations.
FIPA messaging service
Essential component of FIPA infrastructure ensuring routing, delivery and management of messages between agents in a distributed multi-agent system.