Multi-Agent Interaction Protocols for e-Business

  • Authors:
  • Martin Purvis;Mariusz Nowostawski;Marcos Oliveira;Stephen Cranefield

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IAT '03 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Multi-agent interaction protocols are used to support extendedconversations between interacting agents. Traditionally, agentinteraction protocols have just specified the overt interactionsthat take place among communicating agents and have ignored other,non-interactive, events that may have a bearing on the ensuingconversation. In this paper we present our own approach formodelling interaction protocols, which has drawn inspiration fromnarrative intelligence studies and which can incorporate aspects ofthe conversational context which are germane to the agentinteraction. We argue that our approach is more suited to thesupport of complex interactions, such as can occur in e-businessoperations among agents, and we illustrate our approach bydiscussing an example based on commodities trading that involvesmultiple exchanges among a collection of interacting agents.