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2COMM: A Commitment-Based MAS Architecture

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2013)

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Social expectations and social dependencies are a key characteristic of interaction, which should be explicitly accounted for by the agent platform, supporting the coordination of the involved autonomous peers. To this aim, it is necessary to provide a normative characterization of coordination and give a social meaning to the agents’ actions. We focus on one of the best-known agent platforms, Jade, and show that it is possible to account for the social layer of interaction by exploiting commitment-based protocols, by modifying the Jade Methodology so as to include the new features in a seamless way, and by relying on the notion of artifact, along the direction outlined in the Mercurio proposal.

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    Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio & Federico Capuzzimati

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Baldoni, M., Baroglio, C., Capuzzimati, F. (2013). 2COMM: A Commitment-Based MAS Architecture. In: Cossentino, M., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Winikoff, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8245. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45343-4_3

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