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The paper begins by instigating the sketch of agents from different perspectives and expanding to the assessment of various protocols for agent communication and provides an analysis of various available protocols. The paper majorly contributes a concise review of all agent protocols and also presents the issues that can be addressed for further improvement. The article settles by presenting the open challenges in the said domain and future research directions in the said domain.
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Juneja, D., Jasmine, Shefali, Kumari, P., Arya, A. (2019). An Assessment of Interaction Protocols for Multi-agent Systems. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Somanah, R., Yang, XS., Senkerik, R. (eds) Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 862. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3329-3_48
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