A communication language and the design of a diagnosis agent - Towards a framework for mobile diagnosis agents

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 behaviour 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 today's WWW browsers.