Authors:
Jason Heard
and
Rob Kremer
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Canada
Keyword(s):
Multi Agent Systems, Communications Protocols, Knowledge Representation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
AI Programming
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Currently, there is no method for describing the requirements of a multi agent protocol. Much work has been
done on describing protocols themselves, and this work has continually shifted from low-level protocols, such
as situation-action pairs, to higher-level protocols, such as conversation policies. Despite the wealth of work
in methods for describing policies, there is no work on describing what a policy should do. A method to
describe what (and not how) would be useful in the area of automated protocol evaluation and even protocol
generation. To address this gap, this paper outlines a situation model that contains all of the information
needed to define the requirements of a new protocol in a declarative manner. The situation model describes
the needed information to develop new protocols, try those protocols in an appropriate environment and then
evaluate the performance of the protocols once they have been executed. In addition, this model has a fairly
simple textual representa
tion that is designed to be easily parsed. This paper also outlines how this model
could be used to generate possible protocols and to evaluate potential protocols.
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