Fredericton, Canada, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 23, 2010

RuleML, the leading provider of standards for rule technologies on the Web, and the Department of Informatics of AUTH (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), the largest university in Greece, announced a collaborative effort on integrating their platforms to enhance support for rule-based multi-agent systems. This collaboration explores the integration of the Rule Responder and Emerald platforms, with respect to their agent-connection topologies, their interchange principles, as well as their used subsets of RuleML and (bidirectional) gateways between them. Furthermore, the Prova and DR-Device reasoning engines will be supported for both Rule Responder and Emerald. RuleML is to be used for all serialization needs, in particular Reaction RuleML for event messaging with pragmatic primitives from e.g. the FIPA Agent Communication Language (ACL). The resulting Emerald RuleML Responder is to be tested both by extending the Rule Responder instantiation SymposiumPlanner to further agents with an Emerald bridge and, conversely, by extending an Emerald instantiation with a Rule Responder bridge.

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