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@INPROCEEDINGS{EndrissLuMaudetStathisESAW2003,
  AUTHOR = {Ulrich Endriss and Wenjin Lue and Nicolas Maudet and Kostas Stathis},
  TITLE = {Competent agents and customising protocols},
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 4th
         International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agent World (ESAW-2003)},
  YEAR = {2004},
  PAGES = {168--181},
  EDITOR = {A.~Omicini and P.~Petta and J.~Pitt},
  SERIES = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)},
  VOLUME = {3071},
  PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag},
  NOTE = {},
abstract = {
In open agent societies, communication protocols and
strategies cannot be assumed to always match
perfectly, because they are typically specified by different
designers. These potential discrepancies raise a number of
interesting issues, most notably the problem
of checking that the behaviour of an agent is (or will be) conformant to
the rules described by a protocol.
In this paper, we argue that the ability to merely conform to a protocol
is not sufficient for an agent to be a \emph{competent} user of that
protocol. We approach the intuitive idea of protocol competence by
introducing a notion that considers, broadly speaking, an agent's
ability to reach a particular state of the interaction and we provide
preliminary results that allow us to automatically check competence
in the context of a specific class of logic-based agents. Finally,
we illustrate how these results can facilitate the customisation of
protocols used by agents that are not fully competent.}
}