Title :
Concurrent role-based interpretation of protocol scripts: an approach for agent coordination
Author :
Jamison, Wilfred C. ; Lea, Douglas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents an approach to coordination based upon concurrent interpretation of scripts among agents that adopt various roles in cooperative problem solving tasks. The authors introduce an associated role-based coordination language called TRUCE that can be used for writing protocol scripts and which implements the approach
Keywords :
cooperative systems; problem solving; protocols; software agents; TRUCE; agent coordination; concurrent role-based interpretation; cooperative problem solving tasks; protocol script writing; role-based coordination language; Centralized control; Collaboration; Computer science; Encapsulation; Intelligent agent; Internet; Open systems; Problem-solving; Protocols; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1998. (WET ICE '98) Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8751-7
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1998.725683
