Agent PSIG

Mission:

Contacts:

The mission of the Agent Platform Special Interest Group is to work with OMG platform and domain task forces:

To identify and recommend new OMG specifications in the area of agent technology.
To recommend agent-related extensions to existing and emerging OMG specifications
To promote standard agent modeling languages and techniques that increase rigor and consistency of specifications.
To enable developers to better understand how to develop agent-based applications, including large-scale distributed agent systems.
To leverage and interoperate with other OMG specifications in the agent area, where appropriate.
To liaise with related organizations that share common goals.

Agents: A Necessary Ingredient in Today’s Highly Collaborative World (16 Oct 2008).
Learn more from here.

Documents that are currently available for the current Agent standards efforts: here

Chair:

James J. Odell, CSC

How to get involved:

If you are interested in getting involved with this group, want more information or would like to come as a guest to an upcoming meeting and obtain temporary access to the mailing list, please contact one of our Account Representative or contact one of the Chairs.

Email Lists:

The OMG maintains a number of email lists for our groups. Click here to view the email list(s) which are pertinent to this group. Many lists are only open to members of the OMG.

If you have any questions about adopted specifications, please feel free to contact the tech-editor.

Current status (October 2008)

The Agent PSIG is involved in three areas:

1) The notion of Agent is in the UPMS (SoaML) submission

2) Issued a first-generation Agent Metamodel and Profile RFP for the important foundational notions required for agents.

3) Collaborating with the EMP RFP submitters to incorporate agent-based elements. (EMP RFP)

The Agent PSIG welcome other work topics. So, feel free to suggest one.

The next Agent PSIG meeting meets via telecon every Thursday. If you are interested in contributing, contact the chair.