Theoretical Foundations of the A2RD Project: Part I

In [24], the proposal for an inter-agent communication language (ACL) that gave rise to Java Agent Development Framework (JADE), whose best-known original document is [25] followed by a complementary article [26] and a much more complete text in [27]. The importance of the environment, in which the agents interact, is characterized in a very lucid manner in [28]. All active FIPA specifications are listed in Table I.