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Language for Advertisement and Request for Knowledge Sharing (LARKS)
Head: Katia Sycara
Contact: Joseph Andrew Giampapa (garof@andrew.cmu.edu)
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents
For more information, see this project's homepage.
We are developing an agent capability description language called LARKS (Language for Advertisement and Request for Knowledge Sharing). In order for heterogeneous agents to coordinate effectively across distributed networks of information, they must be able to communicate with each other using a common language. This common language is used by middle or matchmaking agents to pair service-requesting agents with service-providing agents that meet the requesters' requirements.