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{{Short description|Computer language and protocol}}
{{Other uses|Manipulation (disambiguation){{!}}Manipulation}}

The '''Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language''', or '''KQML''', is a language
and protocol for communication among software agents and [[Knowledge Interchange Format|knowledge-based systems]].<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Finin | first1 = T. | last2 = Fritzson | first2 = R. | last3 = McKay | first3 = D. | last4 = McEntire | first4 = R. | chapter = KQML as an agent communication language | doi = 10.1145/191246.191322 | title = Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '94 | pages = 456 | year = 1994 | isbn = 0897916743 | s2cid = 1129799 }}</ref> It was
developed in the early 1990s as part of the [[DARPA]] knowledge Sharing Effort, which was aimed at developing techniques for building large-scale knowledge bases which are
share-able and re-usable. While originally conceived of as an interface to knowledge based systems, it was soon repurposed as an [[Agent communication language]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/ |title=UMBC Agent Web |access-date=2003-09-02 |archive-date=2008-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222101226/http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Tim Finin; Jay Weber; Gio Wiederhold; Michael Gensereth; Richard Fritzson; Donald McKay; James McGuire; Richard Pelavin; Stuart Shapiro; Chris Beck: [http://www.cs.umbc.edu/KQML/kqmlspec.ps DRAFT Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language (PostScript)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830005445/http://www.cs.umbc.edu/KQML/kqmlspec.ps |date=2006-08-30 }}, June 15, 1993.</ref>

Work on KQML was led by [[Tim Finin]] of the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]] and Jay Weber of EITech and involved contributions from many researchers.

The KQML message format and protocol can be used to interact with an intelligent system, either by an [[application program]], or by another intelligent system. KQML's "performatives" are operations that agents perform on each other's knowledge and goal stores. Higher-level interactions such as [[Contract Net Protocol|contract net]]s and negotiation are built using these. KQML's "communication facilitators" coordinate the interactions of other [[Multi-agent system|agents]] to support [[knowledge sharing]].

Experimental prototype systems support concurrent engineering, intelligent design, intelligent planning, and scheduling.<ref name="foldoc">{{foldoc|Knowledge+Query+and+Manipulation+Language}}</ref>

KQML is superseded by [[FIPA-ACL]].

==References==
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[[Category:Knowledge representation languages]]
[[Category:Agent communications languages]]

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