FIPA and MASIF standards
Noman Islam, Ghulam Ali Mallah, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh · 2010
Software Agents are autonomous piece of code that acts on behalf of its user to achieve the goals of the user. They are considered as one of the most vital components of semantic web. To facilitate the development of software agents for real world applications, a number of frameworks have been proposed. Over the years, we have seen the emergence of two agent's development standards i.e. FIPA and MASIF. These standards provide specifications and guidelines to developers of frameworks in constructing any agent framework. In this paper, we have provided a comparative study of existing agent standards i.e. FIPA and MASIF. We have highlighted their missing features and provided guidelines on how any agent developer can incorporate these missing features in building agent applications. Based on our study, we have concluded that these two standards are complementary to each other. We have also discussed the integration strategies that have been proposed in literature to combine these two standards.