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Matchmaker Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Lori R Price (lrprice@cs.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.

This page last updated - January 2006.

Project Description

The Matchmaker is an information agent that helps make connections between agents that request services and agents that provide services. The Matchmaker system allows agents to find each other by providing a mechanism for registering each agent's capabilities. An agent's registration information is stored as an "advertisement," which provides a short description of the agent, a sample query, input and output parameter declarations, and other constraints.

When the Matchmaker agent receives a query from a user or another software agent, it searches its dynamic database of "advertisements" for a registered agent that can fulfill the incoming request. The Matchmaker thus serves as a liason between an agent that requests services and an agent that can fulfill requests for services.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Sean R Owens	Research Programmer	owens@cs.cmu.edu
	Katia Sycara	Research Professor	katia@cs.cmu.edu

Current Sub-projects

A-Match - A-Match, the interface to the RETSINA Matchmaker, provides a web interface for users to advertise their agents, customize agents, find other agents, and query them.