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On the Enactability of Agent Interaction Protocols: Toward a Unified Approach

Year: 2019

Type: preprint

Abstract: Interactions between agents are usually designed from a global viewpoint. However, the implementation of a multi-agent interaction is distributed. This difference can introduce issues. For instance, it is possible to specify protocols from a global viewpoint that cannot be implemented as a collection of individual agents. This leads naturally to the question of whether a given (global) protocol is enactable. We consider this question in a powerful setting (trace expression), considering a range of message ordering interpretations (what does it mean to say that an interaction step occurs before another), and a range of possible constraints on the semantics of message delivery, corresponding to different properties of underlying communication middleware.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.01131

Authors: Ferrando, Angelo, Winikoff, Michael, Cranefield, Stephen, Dignum, Frank, Mascardi, Viviana

Institutions: University of Liverpool, University of Otago, Utrecht University, University of Genoa

Language: English

Topic: Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2912594850

Cites: 22

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