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Overview This paper summarizes a presentation made to a meeting on Intelligent Agent Technology organized by the EPSRC Community Club in Advanced Computing Techniques. The paper briefly reviews the needs, objectives and difficulties of standardization for intelligent agents, then discusses one particular current activity: the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). In particular, the FIPA 97 standard is discussed, and the main features of the three key technology areas are introduced.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	December 1997	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering

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