Coordinating Mobile Agents by means of Communicators

This paper proposes a coordination model, for both nd mobile agents, based on abstract structures called Communicators, entities which handle agent dialogue performed through ACL speech act exchanging. Such structures are designed based on a need to model agent dialogue in a human-like style, offering a set of coordination primitives of general validity, able to provide both a direct and indirect interaction model. Since a Communicator handles messages exchanged within a well-defined multi-agent application, it is fully programmable, i.e. it is possible to specify what messages can be exchanged and how these message have to be handled. In detail, a Communicator performs a syntactic and semantic routing, allowing the exchange and forwarding of a message according to the programmed coordination laws.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WOA
• Authors: Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro
• Keywords: Agent Dialogue, Intelligent Agents, Nd Mobile Agents, Structures Called Communicators, WOA 2001