Internalising Interaction Protocols as First-Class Programming Elements in Multi Agent Systems

Understand

Since their inception, Multi Agent Systems (MASs) have been championed as a solution for the increasing problem of software complexity.

• Communities of distributed autonomous computing entities that are capable of collaborating, negotiating and acting to solve complex organisational and system management problems are an attractive proposition.
• Central to this is the requirement for agents to possess the capability of interacting with one another in a structured, consistent and organised manner.
• This thesis presents the Agent Conversation Reasoning Engine (ACRE), which constitutes a holistic view of communication management for MASs.