FIPA Working Group on Human-Agent Communication

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FIPA Working Group onHuman-Agent Communication

• John Yen
• School of Information Sciences and Technology
• The Pennsylvania State University
• USA

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Objectives

• To extend the current FIPA standards for
  human-agent interactions.
• The initial focus is on human-agent
  communications in the context of decision
  makings.
• Other contexts and broader issues of human-agent
  interactions will be considered in future years.

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Participation

• A list serve will be established for the WG.
• Will also look into the possibility of setting up
  a Web-based collaboration environment for the WG.

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Documents Generated

• The working group is expected to generate a
  standard document regarding an additional set of
  FIPA performatives.

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Technology

• The effort will be built upon published relevant
  research results regarding agent communication
  languages and their semantics.

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Plan and Milestones for Year 1

• 1 month Elect officers. Solicit proposed
  extensions to ACL for human-agent communications.
  
• 2 month Distribute the set of proposed
  extensions to the WG for comments.
• 3 month Decides the set of performatives to be
  included in the proposal.
• 4-5 months Refines the semantics of the
  proposed performatives.
• 6 month Proposes to IEEE FIPA SC a set of
  performatives for human agent communications.
• 7-8 month Working with FIPA, addresses
  comments, decides to adopt friendly amendments.
• 9 month FIPA votes on the proposed standard.
• 10-12 month If approved by FIPA, works with
  IEEE Standard Activities to provide relevant
  information or needed support to turn it into an
  IEEE standard document,
• 12 month Solicit inputs regarding the direction
  for year 2 activities.

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Contact Person

• If interested to join, please contact John Yen at
  jyen_at_ist.psu.edu.