Title
Autonomous Agents: When the Mailbox Remains Empty
Abstract
An agent can send a message but never receive any response, which leads to handling problems. We name this issue the "Empty Mailbox Problem". The causes can lie in low level layers, for instance in communication links, but also in the higher layers, for instance in the behavior of autonomous agents, which can independently choose not to respond. Leaving the agent developer with the difficult task to determine what is to be done in such cases. The proposed solution presented in [8] consists in introducing a new performative and its associated protocol, producing a generic way to handle the empty mailbox problem. This paper refines the work made for this solution and focuses on the integration of this solution into interaction protocols.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.167
IAT
Keywords
Field
DocType
interaction protocol,autonomous agents,low level layer,proposed solution,associated protocol,agent developer,autonomous agent,higher layer,difficult task,empty mailbox problem,communication link,intelligent agent,protocols,fault tolerant,multiagent systems,speech,message passing,decision support systems,fault tolerance
Autonomous agent,Intelligent agent,System recovery,Computer science,Decision support system,Interaction protocol,Multi-agent system,Fault tolerance,Message passing,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katia Potiron131.82
Patrick Taillibert27715.76
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni318420.37