First list of basic agent capabilities

The following items, identified at the London meeting, are considered to be candidate for specification by FIPA in the near term (e.g. end '97). It is reminded that FIPA does not intend to specify the internal behaviour of the subsystems listed.

1. speech processing primitives (in & out)
2. visual input primitives, e.g.
   • identification of pre-specified objects and their position
   • hand-writing and graphics recognition
   • face, gesture and expression recognition
3. visual output primitives, e.g.
   • face animation
4. actuator primitives, e.g.
   • grasping
5. fusion of information, e.g.
   • time synch.
6. support of cultural diversity
7. active (or controllable) head-eye system
8. finite set of basic message types/communication primitives (e.g. speech act vocabulary) for inter-agent communication
9. composition operators for basic message types
10. standard library of interaction protocols
11. refinement of interaction protocols for specific tasks
12. semantic information representation and cognitive architectures
13. reference programming libraries
14. agent programming human interface
15. specification of minimal class library
16. aspects of society of agents
    • authentication
    • privacy
    • security
    • safety
    • authority
    • delegation
    • etiquette and personality (e.g. emotional states)

The following items should be considered as general design parameters to be considered in specification development:

• response time / delay
• scalability
• environmental constraints
• certification of agent quality
• common means of agent configuration and parameterisation