Protocol Moderators as Active Middle-Agents in Multi-Agent Systems

Hanachi, Chihab; Sibertin-Blanc, Christophe

doi:10.1023/b:agnt.0000011159.53397.ea

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“…As defended in the introduction, the previous techniques must be supplemented with collaborative facilities in order to integrate interaction places to support crisis cell members' decision-making. Consequently, we propose to use Interaction Protocols [17] to integrate such a dimension into CRPs. In the crisis context, IPs are for instance used to select actors who will execute specific actions (e.g.…”

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Interaction Protocols for Human-Driven Crisis Resolution Processes

Andonoff

Hanachi

Thanh

et al. 2015

Risks and Resilience of Collaborative Networks

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 18749The contribution was presented at PRO-VE 2015 : https://sites.google.com/a/uninova.pt/pro-ve-15/ Abstract. This work aims at providing a crisis cell with process-oriented tools to manage crisis resolutions. Indeed, the crisis cell members have to define the crisis resolution process, adapt it to face crisis evolutions, and guide its execution. Crisis resolution processes are interaction-intensive processes: they not only coordinate the performance of tasks to be undertaken on the impacted world, but they also support regulatory interactions between possibly geographically distributed crisis cell members. In order to deal with such an interweaving, this paper proposes to use Interaction Protocols to both model formal interactions and ease a cooperative adaptation and guidance of crisis resolution processes. After highlighting the benefits of Interaction Protocols to support this human and collective dimension, the paper presents a protocol meta-model for their specification. It then shows how to suitably integrate specified protocols into crisis resolution processes and how to implement this conceptual framework into a service oriented architecture.

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Section: Flexibility Techniques For Adapting the Crisis Resolution Prmentioning

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Interaction Protocols for Human-Driven Crisis Resolution Processes

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Hanachi

Thanh

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Risks and Resilience of Collaborative Networks

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“…Also, the existence of other CPN-based agent modeling techniques [MW97,HM04,HB04,and XS03] indicates that colored Petri nets have properties that make them an effective tool in MASs modeling. However, the coordinator design method advocated in this paper does not have to be bound to any specific modeling notation.…”

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Flexible coordinator design for modeling resource sharing in multi-agent systems

Lian¹,

Shatz²,

He³

2009

Journal of Systems and Software

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-One approach to modeling multi-agent systems (MAS) is to employ a method that defines components which describe the local behavior of individual agents, as well as a special component, called a coordinator. The coordinator component coordinates the resource-sharing behavior among the agents. The agent models define a set of local plans, and the combination of local plans and a coordinator defines a system's global plan. Although earlier work has provided the base functionality needed to synthesize inter-agent resource sharing behavior for a global, conflict-free MAS environment, the lack of coordination flexibility limits the modeling capability at both the local plan level and the global plan level. In this paper, we describe a flexible design method that supports a range of coordinator components. The method defines four levels of coordination and an associated four-step coordinator generation process, which allows for the design of coordinators with increasing capabilities for handling complexity associated with resource coordination. Colored Petri Net-based simulation is used to analyze various properties that derive from different coordinators and synthesis of a reduced coordinator component is discussed for cases that involve homogeneous agents.

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“…The proposal by Hanachi (Hanachi and Sibertin-Blanc, 2004) allows for specifications of interaction protocols that need to be subsequently compiled into a sort of executable protocol brokers called moderators. In Tropos, the specifications are transformed into agent skeletons that must be extended with code, similar to the aBUILDER tool presented here.…”

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