fiParse - A Generic Parser for FIPA-Compliant Agent Communication

Software Agents communicate by exchanging messages formulated in an Agent Communication Language. In order to facilitate communication and understanding of each other, the domain of discourse of heterogeneous agents should be described in an explicit ontology. Both, the Agent Communication Language and the ontology definition, are independent of the implementation of agents. Furthermore the content of messages should be formulated in a standardized content language. So the content of messages and the representations of ontologies have to be transformed into a format that can be interpreted by an agent. Today many agents are implemented using Java technology. This paper presents a generic parser called fiParse that enables developers of Java-based agents to create representations of ontologies, namely Java classes and standardised message content that can be interpreted by their agents and is compliant to the FIPA standards. This works This is a draft of the paper published in: P. Kokol (Editor), Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2005 http://www.actapress.com/Abstract.aspx?paperId=19134