Open protocol design for complex interactions in multi-agent systems

Agent Mediated Negotiation in E-Commerce : a Review

“…The relationship that a merchant wishes to have with its customers, however, is not competitive. On the contrary, today"s retail merchants desire highly cooperative, long term relationships with their customers to maximize customer satisfaction [10]. This goal of maximizing customer satisfaction is to increase the probability of repeat purchases and new customers through positive reputation.…”

A Scalable Petri Net Representation of Interaction Protocols for Overhearing

“…Most investigations choose to separately represent individual roles within the interaction [1,2,4,5]. Separate places are used for separate roles, and thus different markings distinguish a conversation state where one agent has sent a message, from a state where the other agent received it.…”

“…Then, letting the corresponding transition fire implies the message being sent and received. Previous investigations using this approach include [1,4,5].…”

“…Lately, Petri nets have been shown to offer significant advantages in representing multi-agent interactions [1,5,6]. Different approaches using Petri nets have been introduced, and yet their relative strengths and weakness have not been investigated.…”

Interoperation in Protocol Enactment

“…Thus they are crucial to the design and construction of multiagent systems. Previous work on protocols in multiagent systems has dealt with high-level topics such as semantics [8,18], composition [17], and verification [13]. However, protocols are enacted by agents in physical systems.…”