Fault tolerant knowledge level inter-agent communication in open Multi-Agent Systems

Article type: Other

Authors: Dragoni, Nicola

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, via M. A. Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna, Italy E-mail: dragoni@cs.unibo.it

Abstract: In the thesis we propose FT-ACL, an advanced Agent Communication Language which deals with crash failures of agents running in an open and dynamic MAS. FT-ACL provides high-level fault-tolerant communication primitives and support for an anonymous interaction protocol designed for open MAS. Moreover, the ACL satisfies a set of well defined knowledge-level programming requirements. In the thesis we provide a formal semantics for FT-ACL and a formal specification of the underlying agent architecture.

Keywords: Agent Communication Languages, failure handling, open Multi-Agent Systems

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 385-387, 2006