FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS
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Document
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FIPA
Organisational Structure |
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f-out-00071 |
Document
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Board
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Document
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Preliminary |
Date
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2000/10/26 |
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FIPA
organisation
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Geoff Arnold |
SUN Microsystems |
US |
Director |
Term expires: 2001/10 |
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Bernard Burg |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
US |
Secretary |
Term expires: 2001/10 |
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Rob Hadingham |
Nortel Networks |
UK |
Director |
Term expires: 2001/10 |
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Kyoshi Kogure |
NTT |
JP |
Director |
Term expires: 2001/10 |
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Heimo Laamanen |
Sonera |
FI |
Director |
Term expires: 2002/10 |
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Frank McCabe |
Fujitsu Laboratories of
America |
US |
Vice-President, |
Term expires: 2002/10 |
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Donald
Steiner |
WebV2,
Inc. |
US |
President |
Term
expires: 2002/10 |
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Ebrahim Mamdani |
Imperial College |
UK |
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Rob
Hadingham |
Nortel
Networks |
UK |
Chairman |
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David Levine |
IBM |
US |
Member |
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Hiroki Suguri |
ComTec |
JP |
Member |
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Geoff
Arnold |
Sun |
US |
Chairman |
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IMAGE
Committee
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Image |
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Scope: |
The FIPA Image Committee is responsible for coordinating publicity
activities relating to FIPA. This involves producing the FIPA
Inform! quarterly news letter, issuing press releases and
promoting FIPA standards and activities. |
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Chairman |
Rob Hadingham - Nortel Networks -UK |
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Member |
Bernard Burg - Hewlett-Packard
Company - US |
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Member |
Jonathan Dale - Fujisu
Labs of America - JP |
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Member |
David Evans -
Simplex Technology |
FIPA
Architecture Board (FAB)
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Title: |
Architecture
Board |
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Scope: |
The purpose of
the Architecture Board is to ensure that the technical work of FIPA is
appropriate and that any official standards documents that are produced achieve
the high level of quality demanded by FIPA and its membership. The
Architecture Board has the following remit: - To ensure that FIPA
specifications exhibit: consistency, coherence, integrity and merit. - To approve the
advancement of FIPA specifications through the standard's life cycle. - To oversee the technical
direction of FIPA and influence it where necessary. - To maintain a registry
of FIPA specifications and work plans. An archived
e-mail reflector, fab@fipa.org, shall be created, comprising the members of
the Architecture Board. |
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Chairman |
David Levine - IBM |
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Member |
Fabio
Bellifemine - CSELT – IT |
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Member |
Thierry Bouron
- France Telecom - FR |
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Member |
Phil Buckle -
Nortel Networks -UK |
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Member |
Jonathan Dale -
Fujitsu Labs of America - US |
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Member |
Hiroki Suguri –
ComTec - JP |
Technical
Committees
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Title: |
Architecture |
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Scope: |
The mission of the
Architecture Technical Committee is to construct abstract architectural specifications
that provide a framework in which services necessary to support the
end-to-end interoperability of agents. In particular, this means that this TC
has responsibility for maintaining the FIPA Abstract Architecture. In
addition, current activities revolve around policies and domains. TC Architecture's brief is
to identify those architectural elements and services needed to support the
specification of policies in a machine-readable declarative manner and the
application of policies in the context of services. |
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Chairman |
Francis
McCabe - Fujitsu Labs of America - US |
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Title: |
Agreements Management |
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Scope: |
The Technical Committee for
Agreements Management is concerned with unifying the three following work
plans of into one co-ordinated activity: Agent Configuration
Management Work Plan [f-wp-00004].
The management of large constellations of agents and agent platforms, Agreements Work Plan [f-wp-00008]. The
specification of contracts and agreements between agents, and, Agent Description Ontology
Work Plan [f-wp-00010].
The specification of ontologies to explicitly and formally describe agent
services. This TC will produce three
closely related specifications: Agent Configuration
Management Specification. This addresses the area of agent configuration
management which allows FIPA platforms to manage and maintain large
populations of platforms and agents, to define the configurations and
dependency links between these entities and to provide management and
configuration methods for federated platforms and communities of agents. Agreements Specification.
This is concerned with creating a specification of agreements, or contracts,
between agents and a specification of the services specified within those agreements.
An agreement to provide a service of some kind is the goal of a process of
negotiation between agents and the basis for their collaborative activity. Service Description
Ontology. This is to specify ontologies to explicitly and formally describe
agent services. In particular, to apply it to the services already defined in
the FIPA Agent Management [FIPA00023],
FIPA Nomadic Application Support [FIPA00066] and FIPA
Agent Service Integration [FIPA00079]
specifications. This ontology needs to be extensible to embed application
specific services. |
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Chairman |
Bernard
Burg - Hewlett-Packard Company - US |
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Title: |
Gateways |
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Scope: |
Almost any application in the FIPA environment can be a nomadic
application. The nomadic application environment consists of two clearly separate
domains: a wireless and a wireline network environment. Current FIPA
specifications do not define how interoperability can be achieved between
agents operating in these two domains, thus implementation specific and
propriety solutions are required at present. TC Gateway will produce FIPA specifications covering high-level
interoperability between agents platforms in wireless and wireline domains. |
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Chairman |
John
Shepherdson - BT - UK |
AgentCities
WG
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Title: |
AgentCities |
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Scope: |
The objective of The AgentCities Working Group is to encourage and
support the development of a continually available, publicly accessible
network of deployed FIPA agent services. This network is to serve as an
experimental testbed for interoperability testing, application development
and as a showcase for FIPA technology. The working group supports the
development of the network by engaging in coordination activities such as
holding regular meetings and producing informative guidelines for the
application of FIPA specifications. |
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Chairman |
Steve
Willmott – EPFL – CH , Jonathan Dale - Fujitsu Labs of America - US |
Product
Design and Manufacturing WG
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Title: |
Product Design and
manufacturing |
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Scope: |
The objective of the Product Design and Manufacturing (PD&M)
Working Group is to explore and promote using pre-existing FIPA agent
platforms for developing applications for the product design and
manufacturing This WG will provide FIPA with value-added opinions on the
accuracy of existing specification documentation for the PD&M domain. This WG will produce informative documents on the issues of using
FIPA agent platforms to develop applications for manufacturing. |
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Chairman |
Nina
Berry, Sandia Laboratories, US |
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Title: |
Liaison |
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Scope |
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Chairman |
Robert Hadingham - Nortel
Networks |
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Title: |
Ontology |
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Scope |
The immediate task for the
Ontology SIG is to develop a strategy for bringing Ontology technology into
FIPA's overall framework. For example, FIPA Spec 12 (Ontology Services) may
represent an excellent starting point for this. However, this specification
raises many questions, which now need to be answered. In the future, we
expect that FIPA may adopt a revised Ontology Services specification and
other Ontology related specifications. The Ontology SIG is to is a forum in
which to discuss this and other Ontology related issues. |
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Chairman |
Francis McCabe – Fujitsu
Laboratories of America - US |
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Title: |
Peer-to-Peer (PtP) |
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Scope |
The Peer-to-Peer SIG
addresses the relationship with the Peer-to-Peer Working Group as recently initiated
by Intel and with the peer-to-peer community at large. |
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Chairman |
Donald Steiner - WebV2 -
US |
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Title: |
Security |
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Scope |
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Chairman |
Geoff Arnold – Sun
Microsystems |