2019/02/04 by Ferrando, Angelo, Winikoff, Michael, Cranefield, Stephen +2
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.01131
Interactions between agents are usually designed from a global viewpoint. However, the implementation of a multi-agent interaction is distributed. This difference can introduce issues. For instance, it is possible to specify protocols from a global viewpoint that cannot be implemented as a collection of individual agents. This leads naturally to the question of whether a given (global) protocol is enactable. We consider this question in a powerful setting (trace expression), considering a range of message ordering interpretations (what does it mean to say that an interaction step occurs before another), and a range of possible constraints on the semantics of message delivery, corresponding to different properties of underlying communication middleware.