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Interaction engineering is a key issue to effectively build Multi-Agent Systems. It requires software abstractions, components and control structures to manage interactions among agents and to improve infrastructures at runtime. We propose a framework for automatic processing of interactions generated using FIPA-ACL, a language widely accepted for agent platforms. This framework includes three elements: i) an agent interaction architecture to systematize interaction processing tasks, ii) interaction models to build re-usable validated code used to check different phases of interaction processing associated with message semantics, and iii) components and control structures implementing interaction architecture for a particular agent platform. The paper describes the implementation details of the proposed approach developed within the CAPNET agent platform and illustrates it by example.
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German, E., Sheremetov, L. (2008). An Agent Framework for Processing FIPA-ACL Messages Based on Interaction Models. In: Luck, M., Padgham, L. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII. AOSE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4951. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79488-2_7
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