Hermes: Implementing Goal-Oriented Agent Interactions

Cheong, Christopher; Winikoff, Michael

doi:10.1007/11678823_11

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“…The enhanced methodology provides a guided iterative process for the design of agent interactions. Since the design artefacts produced are pure Hermes artefacts, they can be mapped to an implementation on goal-based agent platforms as explained in [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For a more detailed explanation of the design process refer to [5]. The implementation process is not explained in this paper (see [6] for details). Figure 1 provides an overview of the Hermes methodology.…”

Section: Hermesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, it is desirable for the interactions between agents to also be flexible and robust, and to exploit beneficial characteristics of intelligent agents. Alternative approaches to message-centric protocols, such as the goal-oriented interactions of Hermes [5,6], are required to achieve this.…”

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Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes

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Winikoff

2006

Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV

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Abstract.A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which focus on defining legal sequences of messages. Such approaches do not naturally exhibit flexibility and robustness, and are not a good match for intelligent software agents which are autonomous, proactive, flexible and robust. The Hermes approach to designing agent interaction uses interaction goals, actions, and a number of failure recovery mechanisms to give a design methodology which is a good fit with intelligent software agents. However, the Hermes approach only covers part of the design process. In this paper we integrate Hermes with the Prometheus methodology, thus providing a complete methodology for designing multi-agent systems where interaction design is goal-oriented, yielding flexible and robust interactions.

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Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes

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2006

Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV

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“…One key area for future work is to develop a mapping scheme for implementing commitment-based interaction, in the spirit of [5]. Mapping to a BDI-like agent programming language would appear to be straightforward: each action A with preconditions P and effects {e 1 , .…”

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“…• Attend meeting, done by the Organiser and Participants 5 , has the effect of making attend true, and (because no one likes to attend meetings that they don't have to) has the precondition that there is a commitment to attend (C(P 1 , O, attend) ∧ C(P 2 , O, attend)).…”

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