Interaction Protocols
- They are typical patters of message exchange.
- A designer of agent systems has the choice to make the
agents sufficiently aware of the meanings of the messages and
the goals, beliefs and other mental attitudes the agent
possesses, and that the agent's planning process causes such IPs
to arise spontaneously from the agents' choices. This is hard to
do!
- IPs are given pre-defined names.
- A FIPA ACL-compliant agent need not implement any of the
standard IPs, nor is it restricted from using other IP
names. However, if one of the standard IP names is used, the
agent must behave consistently with the IP specification given
here.
José M. Vidal
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