Expressive global protocols via logic-based electronic institutions

  • Authors:
  • Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We propose a notation to specify and reason about an expressive class of protocols. Our notation is logic-based, employing a restricted form of first-order constructs added with sets. We formally associate the syntax of our constructs with a precise semantics. The semantics enables us to automatically build explicit models which can be used to restrict the possible executions of a given Multi-Agent System. Our notation has been incorporated to a variant of electronic institutions -- an encompassing and flexible approach to specify open agent organisations -- and we have implemented a proof-of-concept platform to enact arbitrary protocols using our notation.