Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Hodík;Jiří Vokřínek;Michal Jakob

  • Affiliations:
  • Agent Technology Center Gerstner Laboratory --- Agent Technology Center Department of Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha 6, Czech Republic 1 ...;Agent Technology Center Gerstner Laboratory --- Agent Technology Center Department of Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha 6, Czech Republic 1 ...;Agent Technology Center Gerstner Laboratory --- Agent Technology Center Department of Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha 6, Czech Republic 1 ...

  • Venue:
  • HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Monitoring of fulfilment of obligations defined by electronic contracts in distributed domains is presented in this paper. A two-level model of contract-based systems and the types of observations needed for contract monitoring are introduced. The observations (inter-agent communication and agents' actions) are collected and processed by the contract observation and analysis pipeline. The presented approach has been utilized in a multi-agent system for electronic contracting in a modular certification testing domain.