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In the paper we study the dynamics of roles played by agents in multiagent systems. We capture role dynamics in terms of four operations performed by agents: ‘enactment’, ‘deactment’, ‘activate’, and ‘deactivate’. The use of these operations is motivated, in particular for open systems. A formal semantics for these operations is provided. This formalization is aimed at serving as a basis for implementation of role dynamics in an agent programming language such as 3APL.
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Dastani, M., van Riemsdijk, M.B., Hulstijn, J., Dignum, F., Meyer, JJ.C. (2005). Enacting and Deacting Roles in Agent Programming. In: Odell, J., Giorgini, P., Müller, J.P. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V. AOSE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30578-1_13
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