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Modern ACLs, such as FIPA ACL, provide standardised catalogues of performatives and protocols, designed as general purpose languages to ensure interoperability among agent systems. However, recent work reports a need for new ad-hoc sets of performatives and protocols in certain contexts, showing that FIPA ACL does not support adequately all relevant types of interactions. In this paper we first present a formal model that relates performatives and protocols to the organisation of MAS. Then, a principled method for the design of the ACL of a particular MAS is developed, which accounts for both, reusability and expressiveness. Finally, we illustrate our approach by an example in the domain of agent-based decision support for bus fleet management.
Research sponsored by MCyT, project TIC2000-1370-C04-01, and by CAM, project 07T/0011/2000
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Manuel Serrano, J., Ossowski, S., Fernández, A. (2003). The Pragmatics of Software Agents: Analysis and Design of Agent Communication Languages. In: Klusch, M., Bergamaschi, S., Edwards, P., Petta, P. (eds) Intelligent Information Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36561-3_11
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