The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages, Labrou Y., Finin T., and Peng Y. Paper describing semantics of FIPA and KQML http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/labrou99current.html

FIPA - Towards a Standard for Software Agents - O'Brien and Nicol R. Paper (PDF) describing the FIPA standard (see also www.fipa.org) http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol16no3/06.pdf

FIPA - Conference and Journal Papers Papers related to the FIPA Agent Communication Language and Related Standards. http://www.fipa.org/resources/documents.html

Knowledge Sharing Effort of the Logic Group at Stanford University Describes efforts to automate the interoperation of agents using knowledge sharing languages. http://logic.stanford.edu/sharing/knowledge.html

LEAP Publications Downloadable papers, presentations or demonstrations in pdf format created by the members of the LEAP consortium. http://leap.crm-paris.com/downloads.html