Title
Towards a Pragmatic Methodology for Open Multi-agent Systems
Abstract
This paper introduces the Rio methodology, which relies on the notions of Role, Interaction and Organization. We define a model of runnable specification of interaction protocols that represents interactions between agents globally, and that can be processed in orsder to generate Colored Petri Nets that handle agent conversations. Moreover, these specifications are not tied to a particular agent model and could therefore be used to enable multi-agent systems interoperability. The Rio methodology aimes at the design of open multi-agent systems, and is based on an engineering of these runnable interaction protocols. They are described in term of conversation between micro-roles characterized by their skills, then micro-roles are gathered in composite roles. These composite roles are used to build abstract agents. Lastly, these latter can be distributed among the agents of a running multi-agent system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-39592-8_28
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi agent system
Conversation,Pragmatics,Interoperability,Computer science,Colored petri,Interaction protocol,Multi-agent system,Specification,Open system (systems theory),Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2871
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philippe Mathieu1245.36
Jean-christophe Routier26114.20
Yann Secq3235.89