A logic-based calculus of events
New Generation Computing
Design and validation of computer protocols
Design and validation of computer protocols
Protocol verification made simple: a tutorial
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special issue on protocol specification, testing and verification
Solving the frame problem: a mathematical investigation of the common sense law of inertia
Solving the frame problem: a mathematical investigation of the common sense law of inertia
On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Flexible protocol specification and execution: applying event calculus planning using commitments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Operational specification of a commitment-based agent communication language
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Animated specifications of computational societies
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Posit spaces: a performative model of e-commerce
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Specification and verification of agent interaction protocols in a logic-based system
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
A Logical Model for Commitment and Argument Network for Agent Communication
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Protocol conformance for logic-based agents
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Requirement analysis for interaction protocols
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Modeling exceptions via commitment protocols
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Designing Commitment-Based Agent Interactions
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Design time analysis of multiagent protocols
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A component-based approach to standardising agent communication
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Implementing commitment-based interactions
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Towards Design Tools for Protocol Development
Agent Communication II
Component-based standardisation of agent communication
DALT'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies V
Designing compliant business processes with obligations and permissions
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Business Process Management Workshops
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Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools that can help protocol designers catch semantical protocol errors at design time. As research in networking protocols has shown, flawed specifications of protocols can have disastrous consequences. Hence, it is crucial to systematically analyze protocols in time to ensure correct specification. This paper studies and formalizes important generic properties of commitment protocols that can ease their correct development significantly. Since these properties are formal, they can easily be incorporated in a software tool to (semi-)automate the design and specification of commitment protocols. Where appropriate we provide algorithms that can directly be used to check these properties in such a design tool.