Open protocol design for complex interactions in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Operational specification of a commitment-based agent communication language
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Posit spaces: a performative model of e-commerce
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The constituents of business interaction: generic layered patterns
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: The language/action perspective
Contextualizing commitment protocol
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Dynamic semantics for agent communication languages
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Information and Software Technology
Competitive Contract Net Protocol
SOFSEM '07 Proceedings of the 33rd conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
Multiagent commitment alignment
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Reasoning intra-dependency in commitments for robust scheduling
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Reasoning about agents and protocols via goals and commitments
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Specifying and Verifying Cross-Organizational Business Models: An Agent-Oriented Approach
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Robust design of multi-agent system interactions: A testing approach based on pattern matching
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Trust-based specification of sociotechnical systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Engineering commitment-based business protocols with the 2CL methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can potentially enhance perspicuity during modeling and flexibility during enactment. We address the problem of creating commitment-based specifications that directly capture business requirements, yet apply in distributed settings. We encode important business patterns in terms of commitments and group them into methods to better capture business requirements. Our approach yields significant advantages over existing approaches: our patterns (1) respect agent autonomy; (2) capture business intuitions faithfully; and (3) can be enacted in real-life, distributed settings. We evaluate our contributions using the Extended Contract Net Protocol.