Review of FIPA Specifications Work Plan

A Study Group on a Review of FIPA Specifications (RoFS) Proposal

Document History

Submitted to IEEE FIPA Standards Committee, September 2005

Accepted October 2005

Work to start: 1^st December, 2005

This document last updated 25-Nov-05

Problem Statement: The primary goal of the proposed Study Group [1] (SG) on Reviewing FIPA specifications is inherent in the name of the group, to review the existing pool of 25 standard specifications and related critiques of these specification. This review, reflecting also on the context of the development of the FIPA specifications, can help FIPA to decide whether or not to upgrade the FIPA specifications and to provide input in order to define new specifications. The scope of the review in terms of whether or not to also focus on in depth on the specifications that did not make it to standard level will be decided as part of this SG’s program of work.

Objectives: The objectives of the proposed SG are to:

Provide a summary for the organization of the specifications
Provide an analysis of the scope, assumptions, design issues for the specifications
Make recommendations for possible specification maintenance / modifications to support new specification opportunities
Provide an assessment of related standardization in others standards bodies.

Participation: A list server will be established for the SG so that members of the SG can discuss using e-mail. We will also look into the possibility of setting

Documents Generated: The working group is expected to generate an informational document to meet the objectives.

Plan for Work and Milestones: We envisage that this WG should complete its remit within 6 months in order to make a timely impact.

[0 month] Issue call for input to agent community
[2 month] Compilation of pool of sources of input for the review, outline of organization or review, assignment of parts of review to the different members.
[4 month] Production of 1^st draft of document and 1^st review of it
[6 month] Production of end report.

Dependencies:The study group will collaborate with related standard activities external to FIPA such as Agentlink related Technical Forum Groups, AAMAS workshop on agent communication, etc. The study group will also liaise with new FIPA WGS such as Web services, Human Agent Communication, P2PNA, etc.

Contact:

Chair: Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary.

To join the WG mailing list, send a message to: listserv@listserv.ieee.org and on the first line of the email body (not subject), put
Subscribe fipa-rofs-wg FirstName LastName.

Anyone (even non-subscribed people) can send a message to fipa-rofs-chair(at)ieee.org

Supporters:

Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary, University of London, stefan.poslad(at)elec.qmul.ac.uk
Margaret Lyell, Intelligent automation, mlyell(at)i-a-i.com
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies AG, gri(at)whitestein.com
Hiroki Suguri, Comtec, suguri(at)comtec.co.j
Massimo Cossentino, Italian National Resource Council, cossentin(at)pa.icar.cnr.it
Vito Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., vito.morreale(at)eng.it
Lin Padgham, RMIT, linpa(at)cs.rmit.edu.au
André Meyer, TNO, Netherl. Org for Applied Scientific Research, meyer(at)ieee.org
Luis Botelho, ADETTI, luis.botelho(at)we-b-mind.org
Marian Nodine, Telcordia, nodine(at)research.telcordia.com

[1] This is a study group rather than a work group because it is not envisaged that this group will lead directly to new specifications and their reference implementations.