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In this paper we propose a unified and general mechanism for developing cooperation protocols in multi-agent systems. The protocols are essentially speech act based but have considerable advantages as compared to previous approaches: First, they are generic in the sense that a protocol execution algorithm can treat the domain independent parts separately from the application dependent reasoning and deciding processes involved. And second, they are recursively defined from primitives which allow a designer (or eventually the agents themselves) configure the appropriate general or domain-specific cooperation protocols.
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Burmeister, B., Haddadi, A., Sundermeyer, K. (1995). Generic, configurable, cooperation protocols for multi-agent systems. In: Castelfranchi, C., Müller, JP. (eds) From Reaction to Cognition. MAAMAW 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027062
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