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International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

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RIO : Roles, Interactions and Organizations

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The notions of role and organization have often been emphasized in several agent oriented methodologies. Sadly, the notion of interaction has seldom been reified in these methodologies. We define here a model of runnable specification of interaction protocols. Then, we propose a methodology for the design of open multi-agent systems based on an engineering of interaction protocols. These interaction protocols are described in term of conversation between micro-roles characterized by their skills, then micro-roles are gathered in composite roles. Then, composite roles are used to build abstract agents. Lastly, these latter can be distributed on running agents of a multi-agent system.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille—CNRS upresa 8022, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59657, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex

    P. Mathieu, J.C. Routier & Y. Secq

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 16627, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík  & Michal Pěchouček  & 

  2. Siemens AG, CT, IC 6, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730, München, Germany

    Jörg Müller

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Mathieu, P., Routier, J., Secq, Y. (2003). RIO : Roles, Interactions and Organizations. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_15

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