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Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
     
         (KQML) A
        language and {protocol}, based on {SGML}, for exchanging
        {information} and {knowledge}, proposed in 1993(?).
     
        Work on KQML is led(?) by Tim Finin  of the
        University of Maryland Baltimore County, Lab for Advanced
        Information Technology.  It is part of the {ARPA} {Knowledge
        Sharing Effort}.
     
        The KQML message format and protocol can be used to interact
        with an intelligent system, either by an {application
        program}, or by another intelligent system.  KQML's
        "performatives" are operations that agents perform on each
        other's knowledge and {goal} stores.  Higher-level
        interactions such as {contract nets} and negotiation are built
        using these.  KQML's "communication facilitators" coordinate
        the interactions of other agents to support knowledge sharing.
     
        Experimental prototype systems support concurrent engineering,
        intelligent design, intelligent planning, and scheduling.
     
        {Home (http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/)}.
     
        (1999-09-28)