An Environment to Support Multi-Party Communications in Multi-Agent Systems

Authors:
Julien Saunier;Flavien Balbo
Affiliations:
LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris Cedex 16,;LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris Cedex 16, and GRETIA, INRETS, 2, Avenue du Général Malleret-Joinville, -F94114 Arcueil,
Venue:
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Two-party communication is the most-studied model to support interaction between two cognitive agents, whereas that is only one case of what an agent should be able to do. Multi-party communications enhance this model, by taking into account all the roles an agent can have in a communication. Nevertheless, there are no generic models and infrastructures that enable to apply multi-party communication in a standardized way. We emphasize that the environment, in the sense of a common medium for the agents, is a suitable paradigm to support multi-party communication. We propose a general and operational model called Environment as Active Support of Interaction (EASI), that enables each agent to actively modify the environment according to its communication needs. Algorithms are proposed and assessed with an example stemming from the ambient intelligence domain.