Interaction protocols play a fundamental role in multi-agent systems. In this work, after analyzing the trends that are emerging not only from research on multi-agent interaction protocols but also from neighboring fields, like research on workflows and business processes, we propose a novel definition of commitment-based interaction protocols, that is characterized by the decoupling of the constitutive and the regulative specifications and that explicitly foresees a representation of the latter based on constraints among commitments. A clear distinction between the two representations has many advantages, mainly residing in a greater openness of multi-agent systems, and an easier re-use of protocols and of action definitions. A language, named 2CL, for writing regulative specifications is also given together with a designer-oriented graphical notation.

Constitutive and regulative specifications of commitment protocols: A decoupled approach

BALDONI, Matteo;BAROGLIO, Cristina;PATTI, Viviana
2013-01-01

Abstract

Interaction protocols play a fundamental role in multi-agent systems. In this work, after analyzing the trends that are emerging not only from research on multi-agent interaction protocols but also from neighboring fields, like research on workflows and business processes, we propose a novel definition of commitment-based interaction protocols, that is characterized by the decoupling of the constitutive and the regulative specifications and that explicitly foresees a representation of the latter based on constraints among commitments. A clear distinction between the two representations has many advantages, mainly residing in a greater openness of multi-agent systems, and an easier re-use of protocols and of action definitions. A language, named 2CL, for writing regulative specifications is also given together with a designer-oriented graphical notation.
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Interaction protocols; Commitments; Constitutive and regulative specifications; Constraints among commitments
Matteo Baldoni; Cristina Baroglio; Elisa Marengo; Viviana Patti
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