Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications
Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications
Goal representation for BDI agent systems
ProMAS'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Formal semantics for AUML agent interaction protocol diagrams
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Hermes: designing goal-oriented agent interactions
AOSE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Extending the capability concept for flexible BDI agent modularization
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Representing long-term and interest BDI goals
ProMAS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
A survey on the implementation of agent oriented specifications
AOSE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering
Augmenting agent platforms to facilitate conversation reasoning
LADS'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Languages, methodologies, and development tools for multi-agent systems
A survey of flexible agent interaction approaches
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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Developing agent applications is a complex and difficult task due to a variety of reasons. One key aspect making multi-agent systems more complicated than traditional applications is that interaction behavior is based on elaborate communication forms such as negotiations instead of simple method calls. Aimed at facilitating the specification and usage of agent communication, agent research resulted e.g. in the definition and standardization of several general purpose interaction protocols such as contract-net or English auction. Nevertheless, the usage of these valuable interaction patterns currently forces developers to concentrate on the details of message passing instead of thinking in terms of the application domain. To alleviate this problem in this paper a goal-oriented approach is proposed, which hides message passing details allowing developers to concentrate on the domain aspects of protocols. The new approach is based on the BDI agent model and is implemented within the Jadex agent framework. The advantages of the goal-based interaction handling are further illustrated by an example application.