OMG Agent Platform Special Interest Group

MISSION STATEMENT

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

To extend the OMG Object Management Architecture (OMA) to better support agent technology.
To identify and recommend new OMG specifications in the agent area.
To recommend agent-related extensions to existing and emerging OMG specifications
To promote standard agent modeling 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.
To liaise with related organizations that share common goals.

The Agent Platform Special Interest Group aims to achieve its mission through the following activities:

collect information via Request For Information
develop an organized overview, survey, and possibly a reference architecture describing areas of agent technology and their relationship to each other
develop a corresponding roadmap describing future technology adoption priorities
initiate technology adoption processes via Requests for Proposals working with appropriate OMG Task Forces
liaison with other OMG Working Groups, Task Forces and Special Interest Groups
provide birds-of-a-feather forum for OMG focused on agent-object interoperability.
liaison with external organisations and forums (e.g., FIPA and NIST)
informational presentations to educate OMG about agent technology