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In this article we present a communication language and a design concept for a diagnosis agent. The communication language is divided in two Parts. One part contains primitives necessary to control and query the agent. The other provides constructs for formulating the structure and behavior of Systems to be diagnosed, and for observations determining the current state of the System. Additionally we give an overview of a WWW-based architecture for accessing an (diagnosis) agent’s functionality. This approach is intended to make diagnosis tools accessible from todays WWW browsers.
The work presented in this paper has been funded by grant H-00031/97 from the Hochschuljubil äumsstiftung der Stadt Wien. Christan Piccardi was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under project grant P12344-INF.
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Piccardi, C., Wotawa, F. (1999). A Communication Language and the Design of a Diagnosis Agent – Towards a Framework for Mobile Diagnosis Agents. In: Imam, I., Kodratoff, Y., El-Dessouki, A., Ali, M. (eds) Multiple Approaches to Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48765-4_46
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