RALE-ACL — A Language for Information Exchange between Case-Based Agents as Alternative to the FIPA-ACL-Based Communication

In this paper, we present RALE-ACL, a communication language for case-based agents in multi-agent systems (MAS) that utilize case-based reasoning (CBR) as the main means of decision making for their agents. RALE-ACL is an accompanying approach of RALE-CBR, a methodology for construction of CBR-based approaches and systems that adds more flexibility to the classic 4R cycle of case-based reasoning. The main goal of RALE-ACL is to establish a much more CBR-compatible alternative to the KQML and FIPA-ACL-based languages, that are currently used in many multi-agent systems, but are too generic and therefore only cumbersomely usable for the specific structure and purposes of case-based agents. This paper is the final part in the trilogy about the RALE methodology.