Document Type
Article
Date
1999
Embargo Period
2-2012
Keywords
coordination protocols, collaborating software agents, TRUCE language, coordination scripts
Language
English
Disciplines
Computer Sciences | Programming Languages and Compilers
Description/Abstract
Established protocols for coordination are essential for implementing joint-action activities among collaborating software agent. Most existing agents, however, are designed only to support static protocols, which limit their interaction domain to specific sets of agents. We develop an agent collaboration framework for open systems that enables an agent to expand its acquaintance set and to adapt to various coordination protocols dynamically. This is achieved through writing coordination scripts that are interpreted at collaboration time. We developed a role-based coordination language for writing these scripts, where the coordination mechanism used is the concurrent interpretation of a single script by the participants of a given collaboration. This interpretation defines the behavior of every agent. Thus. their individual interpretation may differ depending on the roles that were assigned to them. This new coordination language provides various coordination primitives in which the basic synchronization is achieved via distributed rendezvous points. In this paper, we present and demonstrate the elements of the TRUCE language.
Recommended Citation
Jamison, Wilfred C. and Lea, Douglas, "TRUCE: Agent Coordination Through Concurrent Interpretation of Role-Based Protocols" (1999). Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Paper 53.
http://surface.syr.edu/eecs/53