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An Organizational Metamodel for the Design of Catalogues of Communicative Actions

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Modern ACLs, such as FIPA ACL, provide standardized catalogues of performatives denoting types of communicative actions. They have been designed as general purpose languages to ensure interoperability among agent systems. However, recent work reports a need for new ad-hoc sets of performatives in certain contexts, showing that FIPA ACL does not support adequately all relevant types of interactions. In this paper we first present a formal model that relates performatives, and other ACL-related concepts, to the organization of MAS. Then, a principled method for the design of the ACL of a particular MAS is developed, which account for both, reusability and expressiveness. Finally, we illustrate our approach by an example in the domain of online stock brokering.

Research sponsored by MCyT, project TIC2000-1370-C04-01, and by CAM, project 07T/0011/2000

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Group, School of Engineering, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

    Juan Manuel Serrano & Sascha Ossowski

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  1. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan

    Kazuhiro Kuwabara

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Seoul, 90 Cheonnong-dong, Tongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-743, Korea

    Jaeho Lee

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Serrano, J.M., Ossowski, S. (2002). An Organizational Metamodel for the Design of Catalogues of Communicative Actions. In: Kuwabara, K., Lee, J. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2413. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45680-5_7

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