AgenTalk

NTT Communication Science Laboratories and Ishida Laboratory, Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, under development

A coordination protocol description language for multiagent systems. In distributed AI, many coordination protocols such as the contract net protocol have been proposed, and many application-specific protocols will be required as more software agents start to be built. AgenTalk allows coordination protocols to be defined incrementally and to be easily customized to suit application domains by incorporating an inheritance mechanism.