Designing conventions for automated negotiation
Readings in agents
The XML handbook
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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In this paper, we present a new high-level descriptive language for coordination protocol description in multi-agent system. Our language is both programmer and non-programmer oriented. We construct our language underlying XML under the consideration that XML is not only easily understandable by people who do not have a complete understanding of XML, but also facilitates the developing and maintaining parsers, and also facilities our language easily to integrate with WWW-world. In order to enable our language to describe complex coordination protocol, on one hand, we use interaction-oriented model as the design model for our language, which enables our language to easily describe a coordination protocol, where each interaction agent is indicated as a role. On the other hand, our language enables calling outer functions/methods written in general programming language to implement complex computation. We also enable our language to support multirole description and the inheritance mechanism among coordination protocols. Its capability is demonstrated by giving out an example on the Vickrey auction.