An Approach to Agent Communication Based on Organisational Roles

Authors:
Juan Manuel Serrano;Sascha Ossowski
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Modern ACLs, such as FIPA ACL, provide standardised catalogues of performatives denoting types of communicative actions, and interaction protocols. They have been designed as general purpose languages to ensure interoperability among agent systems. However, recent work reports a needfor new ad-hoc sets of performatives in certain contexts, showing that FIPA ACL does not support adequately all relevant types of interactions. In this paper we first present a formal model that relates performatives, andother ACL-related concepts, to the organisation of MAS. Then, a principledmetho dfor the design of the ACL of a particular MAS is developed, which account for both, reusability and expressiveness. Finally, we illustrate our approach by an example in the domain of online stock brokering.