An Approach for FIPA Agent Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Environments

FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) is a standardisation organisation promoting development and specification of agent technologies. Until now FIPA specifications have not been considering mobile ad hoc networks. In such environments agents depend on flexible discovery mechanisms to take advantage of services provided by other agents. This paper describes the major steps that led to the current integration of ad hoc features to the FIPA specification framework. Additionally, application examples demonstrate the benefits of FIPA agents in mobile ad hoc environments.