FIPA

The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents ( FIPA ) is an existing since 1996 standardization committee, whose goal is to create a communication basis for heterogeneous interacting agent systems.

In general, the FIPA deal with agent communication, agent management and transport of agent messages. In agent communication it is, for example, interaction protocols for communication between agents and the application of semantic languages, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) in agent technologies. The transport of agent messages treated, for example, the interoperability of agent architectures with different network architectures, such as the exchange of ACL messages ( Agent Communication Language) with HTTP or WAP servers.

The ' Physical ' (German: physical ) is actually inappropriate in the name of the committee, as the committee mainly specifications for software agent systems currently are 25 ready standards, and not published eg for robots.

Members of FIPA are research institutes from Germany, RWTH Aachen is represented, and large companies from Europe, America and Asia, including Boeing, Siemens and Toshiba.

The members of FIPA in 2005 voted to join the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) to connect and have been on 8 June 2005 for the eleventh member of the Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.