Programming Agents by Their Social Relationships: A Commitment-Based Approach

Algorithms

Matteo Baldoni¹  Stefano Tedeschi¹  Cristina Baroglio¹  Roberto Micalizio¹ 

[1] Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino 10149, Italy;

关键词: social commitments;    agents and artifacts;    agent-oriented software engineering;   

DOI  :  10.3390/a12040076

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Multiagent systems can be seen as an approach to software engineering for the design and development of complex, distributed software. Generally speaking, multiagent systems provide two main abstractions for modularizing the software: the agents and the environment where agents operate. In this paper, we argue that also the social relationships among the agents should be expressed explicitly and become first-class objects both at design- and at development-time. In particular, we propose to represent social relationships as commitments that are reified as resources in the agents’ environment and can be directly manipulated by the agents via standard operations. We demonstrate that this view induces an agent programming schema that is substantially independent of the actual agent platform, provided that commitments are available as explained. The paper exemplifies the schema on two agent platforms, JADE and JaCaMo, where commitments are made available via the 2COMM library.

【 授权许可】

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