Commitment-based Agent Interaction in JaCaMo

We present the JaCaMo+ framework for programming multiagent systems (MAS), where agents interact thanks to commitment-based interaction protocols. Commitment protocols are realized as artifacts that maintain a social state and notify to the participating agents those events that are relevant to the...

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Published inFundamenta informaticae Vol. 159; no. 1-2; pp. 1 - 33
Main Authors Baldoni, Matteo, Baroglio, Cristina, Capuzzimati, Federico, Micalizio, Roberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2018
IOS Press BV
Subjects
Gold
Miners
Modularity
Multiagent systems
Interaction-Oriented Programming
JaCaMo
Commitment-based protocols
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Summary:We present the JaCaMo+ framework for programming multiagent systems (MAS), where agents interact thanks to commitment-based interaction protocols. Commitment protocols are realized as artifacts that maintain a social state and notify to the participating agents those events that are relevant to the interaction. We discuss the advantages, like increased modularity and flexibility, that are brought by commitment-ruled interactions with respect to other proposals. We trace back such advantages to the possibility of relying on a standardized commitment lifecycle. We explain how to use the framework to program interacting agents by using the Netbill protocol as running example, and the Gold Miners scenario as a more complex programming example.
ISSN:0169-2968
1875-8681
DOI:10.3233/FI-2018-1656