Commitment-based Agent Interaction in JaCaMo+

Baldoni, Matteo; Baroglio, Cristina; Capuzzimati, Federico; Micalizio, Roberto

doi:10.3233/fi-2018-1656

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“…Its main and most novel feature is its ability to natively manage the concepts of recursive agents and holons. The JaCaMo+ [10] platform is founded on supporting the concept of agent organization. It integrates the Jason language [11] (a BDI agent language based on the AgentSpeak specification), CArtAgO [12] as a platform for implementing artifacts to define the environment of the agents, and MOISE [13] as the organizational model to structure the agents in the multi-agent system.…”

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SPADE 3: Supporting the New Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

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Although intelligent agent-based systems have existed for several years, the progression in terms of real applications or their integration in the industry have not yet reached the expected levels. During the last two decades, many agent platforms have appeared with the aim of simplifying the development of multi-agent systems. Some of these platforms have been designed for general purposes, while others have been oriented towards specific domains. However, the lack of standards and the complexity associated with supporting such systems, among other difficulties, have hampered their generalised use. This paper looks in depth at the current situation of existing agent platforms, trying to analyse their current shortcomings and their expected needs in the near future. The goal of the paper is to identify possible lines of work and some of the most crucial aspects to be considered in order to popularize the application of agent technology as a dynamic and flexible solution to current problems. Moreover, the paper presents SPADE 3, a new version of the SPADE middleware, which has been totally redesigned in order to conform to the identified challenges. Finally, a case study is proposed to illustrate how SPADE 3 is able to fulfill these challenges.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

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SPADE 3: Supporting the New Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

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“…perception/action), however, the interaction in the context of an organization is not explored in detail in this paper. The interaction, as considered in the MAS domain, includes the specification of interaction protocols as first-class entities that regulate how agents and artefacts interact (Baldoni et al ., 2016b; Zatelli et al ., 2016). This feature allows the developer to specify the interaction outside the agents, as protocol specifications.…”

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Dimensions in programming multi-agent systems

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Research on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has led to the development of several models, languages, and technologies for programming not only agents, but also their interaction, the application environment where they are situated, as well as the organization in which they participate. Research on those topics moved from agent-oriented programming towards multi-agent-oriented programming (MAOP). A MAS program is then designed and developed using a structured set of concepts and associated first-class design and programming abstractions that go beyond the concepts normally associated with agents. They include those related to environment, interaction, and organization. JaCaMo is a platform for MAOP built on top of three seamlessly integrated dimensions (i.e. structured sets of concepts and associated execution platforms): for programming belief desire intention (BDI) agents, their artefact-based environments, and their normative organizations. The key purpose of our work on JaCaMo is to support programmers in exploring the synergy between these dimensions, providing a comprehensive programming model, as well as a corresponding platform for developing and running MAS. This paper provides a practical overview of MAOP using JaCaMo. We show how emphasizing one particular dimension leads to different solutions to the same problem, and discuss the issues of each of those solutions.

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“…This is done by defining a set of conditions to be achieved and the roles that are permitted or obliged to perform them. Nevertheless, as already pointed out in [23], very few agent frameworks address interaction as a first-class entity. An exception is represented by the interaction component in [24,25] for the JaCaMo platform.…”

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“…Whatever action agents decide to perform is acceptable as far as they accomplish their commitments, satisfying the expectations they have on one another. The JaCaMo+ proposal [23] relies on commitments to model explicitly the relationships among the agents as first-class elements of an agent organization. In this paper, we build upon the experience of JaCaMo+ and discuss how the commitment-based approach can be made independent of any agent platform.…”

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

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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.

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Commitment-based Agent Interaction in JaCaMo+

Cited by 19 publications

References 61 publications

SPADE 3: Supporting the New Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

SPADE 3: Supporting the New Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

Dimensions in programming multi-agent systems

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

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