TY - GEN
T1 - Coordination protocol composition approach using metadata in multi-agent systems
AU - Takahashi, Ryuichi
AU - Tei, Kenji
AU - Fukazawa, Yoshiaki
AU - Ishikawa, Fuyuki
AU - Honiden, Shinichi
PY - 2008/11/28
Y1 - 2008/11/28
N2 - In e-Business, agents need to coordinate with each other. Coordination protocols that specify the defining orders of message passing are very important. The scale of e-Business grows with the advancement of technology, and the number of agents involved continues to increase. Specifying the coordination protocols for so many participating agents is a complex task. A coordination protocol composition approach reduces the complexity of specifying such a coordination protocol. It treats coordination protocols as individual parts and composes them to construct the intended protocols. However, existing approaches do not suf-ficiently reduce the complexity when a coordination protocol is composed several times, because too many configurations are required to specify a composition. A new approach is proposed that uses metadata to specify the compositions by specifying only one configuration. It can reduce the number of configurations when a coordination protocol is composed several times.
AB - In e-Business, agents need to coordinate with each other. Coordination protocols that specify the defining orders of message passing are very important. The scale of e-Business grows with the advancement of technology, and the number of agents involved continues to increase. Specifying the coordination protocols for so many participating agents is a complex task. A coordination protocol composition approach reduces the complexity of specifying such a coordination protocol. It treats coordination protocols as individual parts and composes them to construct the intended protocols. However, existing approaches do not suf-ficiently reduce the complexity when a coordination protocol is composed several times, because too many configurations are required to specify a composition. A new approach is proposed that uses metadata to specify the compositions by specifying only one configuration. It can reduce the number of configurations when a coordination protocol is composed several times.
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U2 - 10.1109/EDOC.2008.35
DO - 10.1109/EDOC.2008.35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56649106643
SN - 9780769533735
T3 - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008
SP - 372
EP - 378
BT - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008
T2 - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008
Y2 - 15 September 2008 through 19 September 2008
ER -