IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 1 The IEEE Computer Society FIPA Standards Committee (SC) Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents James Odell, Acting Chair

IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 2 Vision  To produce technology standards that apply to the development of agents and agent-based systems  To reuse other standards, as appropriate  To migrate existing standards to IEEE Major underlying goals: To be marketplace driven - What does the market want? To be implementor driven - What do vendors and actual developers need/want?

IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 3 FIPA History: Milestones  1995: FIPA Root formed  1997: FIPA focus along dimensions of agent management, message transport & ACL – 1 st set of 7 specifications with subsequent implementations  2004: 25 specs standardized (14 in “experimental” status)  2005: FIPA becomes 11 th Computer Society Standards Committee

IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 4 Current Working and Study Groups All are leading up to filing PARS by February 2006  Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group  Human-Agent Communications Working Group  Mobile Agents Working Group  P2P Nomadic Agents Working Group  Review of FIPA Specification Study Group

IEEE FIPA, November 2005, Philadelphia 5 Status  P&P developed and approved.  Website and LISTSERVs established  Working groups set up and active  Bank account set up  Membership drive to begin next month