TY - GEN
T1 - A flexible protocol composition for multi-party coordination protocols in multi-agent systems
AU - Takahashi, Ryuichi
AU - Tei, Kenji
AU - Fukazawa, Yoshiaki
AU - Ishikawa, Fuyuki
AU - Honiden, Shinichi
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Multi-agent systems need protocols to coordinate among agents implemented by different owners. However, specifying coordination protocols for many participating agents is a complex task. A protocol composition approach, which can reduce the complexity of specifying such a coordination protocol, must specify how to compose coordination protocols in a composition configuration. Current protocol compositions cannot sufficiently reduce the complexity because composing a protocol several times requires the specification of too many configurations. We propose a protocol composition approach that can specify composition configurations in an abstract way. We assign metadata to the messages in a coordination protocol and use the metadata to specify the configuration. An abstract configuration using metadata can be applied to various protocol compositions and can reduce the number of specifications required for configuration composition.
AB - Multi-agent systems need protocols to coordinate among agents implemented by different owners. However, specifying coordination protocols for many participating agents is a complex task. A protocol composition approach, which can reduce the complexity of specifying such a coordination protocol, must specify how to compose coordination protocols in a composition configuration. Current protocol compositions cannot sufficiently reduce the complexity because composing a protocol several times requires the specification of too many configurations. We propose a protocol composition approach that can specify composition configurations in an abstract way. We assign metadata to the messages in a coordination protocol and use the metadata to specify the configuration. An abstract configuration using metadata can be applied to various protocol compositions and can reduce the number of specifications required for configuration composition.
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U2 - 10.1109/PERCOM.2008.94
DO - 10.1109/PERCOM.2008.94
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:49149128641
SN - 076953113X
SN - 9780769531137
T3 - 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008
SP - 609
EP - 614
BT - 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008
T2 - 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008
Y2 - 17 March 2008 through 21 March 2008
ER -