Nicolas Maudet
LAMSADE
Univ. Paris 9 Dauphine
75775 Paris Cedex 16
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Competent agents and customising protocols
Ulrich Endriss, Wenjin Lue, Nicolas Maudet, and Kostas Stathis. Competent agents and customising protocols. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agent World (ESAW-2003), pp. 168–181, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3071, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
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Abstract
In open agent societies, communication protocols andstrategies cannot be assumed to always matchperfectly, because they are typically specified by differentdesigners. These potential discrepancies raise a number ofinteresting issues, most notably the problemof checking that the behaviour of an agent is (or will be) conformant tothe rules described by a protocol.In this paper, we argue that the ability to merely conform to a protocolis not sufficient for an agent to be a competent user of thatprotocol. We approach the intuitive idea of protocol competence byintroducing a notion that considers, broadly speaking, an agent'sability to reach a particular state of the interaction and we providepreliminary results that allow us to automatically check competencein the context of a specific class of logic-based agents. Finally,we illustrate how these results can facilitate the customisation ofprotocols used by agents that are not fully competent.
BibTeX
@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.}
}
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