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Implementing commitment-based interactions

Year: 2007

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Although agent interaction plays a vital role in MAS, and message-centric approaches to agent interaction have their drawbacks, present agent-oriented programming languages do not provide support for implementing agent interaction that is flexible and robust. Instead, messages are provided as a primitive building block. In this paper we consider one approach for modelling agent interactions: the commitment machines framework. This framework supports modelling interactions at a higher level (using social commitments), resulting in more flexible interactions. We investigate how commitment-based interactions can be implemented in conventional agent-oriented programming languages. The contributions of this paper are: a mapping from a commitment machine to a collection of BDI-style plans; extensions to the semantics of BDI programming languages; and an examination of two issues that arise when distributing commitment machines (turn management and race conditions) and solutions to these problems.

Source: Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems

DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329283

Author: Michael Winikoff

Institution: RMIT University

Language: English

Topic: Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Australian Research Council

Award: Advanced Software Engineering Support for Intelligent Agent Systems