IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 1 The IEEE Computer Society FIPA Standards Committee (SC)...

IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 1

The IEEE Computer SocietyFIPA Standards Committee

(SC)

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents http://www.fipa.org

James Odell, Acting ChairFipa-chair@ieee.orgwww.jamesodell.com

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Vision

To produce technology standards that apply to the development of

agents and agent-based systems

To reuse other standards, as appropriate

To migrate existing standards to IEEE

Major underlying goals:

To be marketplace driven - What does the market want?

To be implementor driven - What do vendors and actual

developers need/want?

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FIPA History: Milestones

1995: FIPA Root formed

1997: FIPA focus along dimensions of agent management, message transport & ACL – 1st set of 7 specifications with subsequent implementations

2004: 25 specs standardized (14 in “experimental” status)

2005: FIPA becomes 11th Computer Society Standards Committee

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Current Working and Study Groups

All are leading up to filing PARS by February 2006

Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group (FIPA-AWSI-WG@IEEE.ORG)

Human-Agent Communications Working Group (FIPA-HAC-WG@IEEE.ORG)

Mobile Agents Working Group (FIPA-MA-WG@IEEE.ORG)

P2P Nomadic Agents Working Group (FIPA-P2PNA-WG@IEEE.ORG)

Review of FIPA Specification Study Group (FIPA-ROFS-SG@IEEE.ORG)

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Status

P&P developed and approved.

Website and LISTSERVs established

Working groups set up and active

Bank account set up

Membership drive to begin next month