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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.
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Mathieu, P., Routier, JC., Secq, Y. (2003). Towards a Pragmatic Methodology for Open Multi-agent Systems. In: Zhong, N., Raś, Z.W., Tsumoto, S., Suzuki, E. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39592-8_28
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