The evolution of interoperability

  • Authors:
  • Amit K. Chopra;Munindar P. Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trento, Italy;North Carolina State University

  • Venue:
  • DALT'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This note is a retrospective review of our 2006 paper [1] on the properties of protocols, especially interoperability. A bit of history is in order. By 2006, the importance of a social semantics for protocols was well-established in the multiagent systems community. Further, commitments had emerged as a preeminent abstraction for capturing the semantics. The big advantage was that specifying the meaning of protocol messages in terms of the commitments among agents enabled the agents to act flexibly.