Paper Info
Title
Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture
Abstract
The meaning of a communicative act in a multi-agent system can be characterised at a number of different levels. We argue that only one level of meaning is common across all applications: what we call the action-level semantics given by protocols or conversation policies. We define a general semantic framework for specifying the semantics of a class of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) based on protocols. We then introduce sACL, a small ACL, and show how the action-level semantics of this language can be integrated with an intentional semantics. This enables us to specify the meaning of an individual communicative act in the context of the conversation in which it occurs, and to customise sACL for different application domains. We describe a development method for defining an ACL for a particular application, and give a reference architecture for the method using the Beliefs-Desires-Intentions (BDI) agent architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/10722777_11
Issues in Agent Communication
Keywords
Field
DocType
development method,reference architecture,communication protocols,multi-agent systems,multi agent system,communication protocol
Axiom schema,Conversation,Computer science,Multi-agent system,Agent architecture,Human–computer interaction,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Reference architecture,Belief revision,Semantics,Communications protocol
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1916
0302-9743
3-540-41144-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
1.13
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy Pitt119724.59
Abe Mamdani223124.97