1. Agent Standardization and the OMG AgentLink III Meeting TF3 CASA - Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activities 15 September 2005 James Odell www.jamesodell.com

2. Page 2 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Open-membership, not-for-profit consortium Produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications Membership includes virtually every large company in the computer industry, and hundreds of smaller ones. (550 members—and growing) Most of the companies that shape enterprise and Internet computing today are represented on the OMG’s Board of Directors Any company may join OMG and participate in our standards-setting process. Produces and distributes only specifications – not software. (All specifications may be downloaded, free of charge.) Encourage rapid commercial adoption of the technologies it publishes. WHAT IS THE OMG?

3. Page 3 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Analysis and Design Agents Business Enterprise Integration Consultation, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C4I) eGovernment Finance Gene Expression Geospatial and Imagery Value-Added Services Healthcare Information and Security Assurance IT Portfolio Management Japan Korea JUST SOME OF THE OMG SUB-GROUPS Life Sciences Research Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems Middleware and Related Services Model Integrated Computing Ontology Product Lifecycle Management Services Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems Software-Based Communications Space Super Distributed Objects Systems Engineering Telecommunications Transportation XML Telemetric and Command Data Exchange

4. Page 4 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 WHAT IS THE OMG PRIMARILY KNOWN FOR?

5. Page 5 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Mission Statement To identify and recommend new specifications in the area of agent technology. To promote agent standards that increase rigor and consistency of specifications. To recommend agent-related extensions to existing and emerging 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 specifications in the agent area, where appropriate. To liaise with related organizations that share goals toward agent technology. Current activity 1) Extending UML 2.0 Superstructure to represent agents and agent-based systems. 2) Extending UML 2.0 Infrastructure to provide an infrastructure for agents. WHAT IS THE AGENT SIG?

6. Page 6 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Agentis (James Odell) Altarum (Van Parunak) Boeing (Jaymes Wilks) CTA (Computer Technology Associates) (Brent Langley) DHL (David Norton) DoCoMo (Anthony Tarlano) IAI (Intelligent Automation, Inc.) (Renato Levy) Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NS Nagaraj) John Deere & Co (Roger Burkhart) MagicDraw (No Magic) (Gary Duncanson) NIST (Shaw Feng) SAIC (Telcordia) (Marian Nodine, David Fado) Telcordia (Marian Nodine) Unisys (Mila Polonskaya, Sumeet Malhorta) University of Bologna (Paolo Ciancarini) INVOLVED IN THE AGENT SIG? In-principle support from UML 2.0 tool vendors: NoMagic (MagicDraw) SparxSystems (Enterprise Architect) GentleWare (Poseidon)

7. Page 7 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Responses from:  FIPA  Agentis Software, University of Augsburg  Agentis, Intelligent Automation, Telcordia Technologies  RMIT University  Whitestein Technologies  PUC-Rio  The Distributed Group -- University of Seville  Calico Jack's Ltd. MODELING AGENT-BASED SYSTEM MODELING RFI OMG Request for Information (RFI) Issued - 27 August 2004 Deadline - 10 January 2005

8. Page 8 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 Robotics SIG http://robotics.omg.org Super Distributed Objects SIG Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems TF http://realtime.omg.org Ontology Definition Metamodel (Ontology SIG, http://ontology.omg.org) Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (Business Enterprise Integration TF, http://bei.omg.org/ ) RELATED TO AGENT STANDARDS IN THE OMG

9. Page 9 Agent Standardization and the OMG © James Odell, 2005 IEEE FIPA, however, is where most of the current agent standards activity is occurring. OMG vs IEEE FIPA

10. Agent Standardization and the OMG AgentLink III Meeting TF3 CASA - Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activities 15 September 2005 James Odell www.jamesodell.com