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Modelling and visualizing agent conversations

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Marisuz Nowostawski,

Martin Purvis,

Stephen CranefieldAuthors Info & Claims

AGENTS '01: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents

Pages 234 - 235

https://doi.org/10.1145/375735.376297

Published: 28 May 2001 Publication History

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Although the notion of conversations has been discussed for some time as a way in which to provide an abstract representation of extended agent message exchange, there is still no consensus established concerning how to use these abstractions effectively. This paper describes a layered approach based on coloured Petri Nets that can be used for modelling complex, concurrent conversations among agents in a multi-agent system. The approach can be used both to define simple conversation protocols and to define more complex conversation protocols composed of a number of simpler conversations. With this method it is possible (a) to capture the concurrent characteristics of a conversation, (b) to capture the state of a conversation at runtime, and (c) to reuse conversation structures for the processing of multiple concurrent messages.

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AGENTS '01: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents

May 2001

662 pages

ISBN:158113326X

DOI:10.1145/375735

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DFKI, Germany
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Sandip Sen
Univ. of Tulsa,
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Univ. of Montreal, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
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Seimens, Germany

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