Agent-Oriented Software Engineering by Onn Shehory & Arnon Sturm

Author:Onn Shehory & Arnon Sturm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

Other desirable features that are lacking in current notations include: representing agent responsibilities; showing the creation and discharge of social commitments; depicting percepts and actions 7; clearly indicating the trigger of an interaction; and linking to the processing within each agent (e.g., the goals that it achieves at various points in the interaction [13]). These missing features also have implications for the implementation of interaction protocols . Currently, mapping a protocol into what each individual agent needs to do to play its part in the interaction, is a manual and error-prone process. Extending protocols to include information on triggers and on the agent goals that are involved would allow this process to be better supported.

Unfortunately, this second issue has not been adequately tackled in the literature. What is needed is a new notation (or significant extensions to existing notations) that allow for these various aspects to be represented; along with a revised design process. It is important for the new (or extended) notation to be precisely defined; for the design process to include detailed heuristics and clearly specified steps; and for there to be tool support, especially for the implementation step.

Taken together, these issues imply that the current state of the art in designing multi-agent interactions is adequate (at least for interactions that are not too complex), but that interaction design is not well supported by existing notations and processes, and that the interactions that are produced tend not to exploit the flexibility and robustness of individual agents.

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