An Extended Set of Interaction Primitives for Multi-agent Systems Development

MARIANO TUCAT; ALEJANDRO J. GARCÍA

Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto

Workshop; 7mo Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación (WICC 2005); 2005

The research line reported here involves the improvement of the set of interaction primitives that we have developed in previous works, for the implementation of multi-agent systems in dynamic and distributed environments. This interaction primitives have been implemented for allowing the creation of several independent multi-agent systems, where agents communicate with others just by knowing the other agents´ names. The framework includes primitives for associating the arrival of a message with the automatic execution of a Prolog predicate, thus allowing event-based programming. It also allows the implementation of standard Agent Communication Languages, and provides tools for developing standard Agent Conversation Protocols. We will first describe brie°y our framework and then we will propose some improvements for it.