A Performative-Based Information Capacity Calculation Metric for MultiAgent Interaction Protocols

• Published in: Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing pp. 214 - 224
• Main Authors: Bebek, Dogus, Kilic, Hurevren
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Agent communication language performatives; Agent communication protocol; Combinatorial capacity calculation; Discrete noiseless channel; L-channel; Metric for multiagent systems; Shannon language
• ISBN: 9783319270593; 3319270591
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27060-9_17

A performative-based information capacity calculation metric for MultiAgent Interaction Protocols is developed. The metric uses Shannon’s L-channel combinatorial information capacity calculation idea. In the approach, MultiAgent System (MAS) protocol is modeled as a discrete noiseless channel and provides not data level but language specific information capacity calculation for high level performative-based protocols. The amount of information that flow in MAS due to FIPA-ACL performatives used in given communication protocol is measured and figured out. The unit of measurement is bits per performative. Since the metric is a design time metric, it gives the system designer an opportunity to evaluate his/her design without implementing and testing it. In the application of the proposed metric to FIPA contract net protocol and its iterated versions, we observed a correlation between iteration counts and metric values.