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ESAW 2003: Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV pp 182–199Cite as

Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems

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This paper presents an approach to formally link a simple dependency-based coordination model to its related conversation protocol. Hence, by observing conversation among coordinating entities, an external observer is able to recognise valid conversations that do not break the established norms on coordination. This may help in building reliable autonomous agent based systems in open and untrustred environments.

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  1. Laboratoire, Informatique, Robotique et Micro électronique, Montpellier, France

    Abdelkader Gouaich

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  1. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, via Venezia 52, 47023, Cesena, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  2. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,, Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  3. Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2BT, UK

    Jeremy Pitt

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Gouaich, A. (2004). Coordination and Conversation Protocols in Open Multi-agent Systems. In: Omicini, A., Petta, P., Pitt, J. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV. ESAW 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3071. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25946-6_12

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