Affiliations: Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica, c.so Svizzera 185, I-10149 Torino, Italy. {Matteo.Baldoni, Cristina.Baroglio, Federico.Capuzzimati, Roberto.Micalizio}@unito.it
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Address for correspondence: Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica, c.so Svizzera 185, I-10149 Torino, Italy
Abstract: We present the JaCaMo+ framework for programming multiagent systems (MAS), where agents interact thanks to commitment-based interaction protocols. Commitment protocols are realized as artifacts that maintain a social state and notify to the participating agents those events that are relevant to the interaction. We discuss the advantages, like increased modularity and flexibility, that are brought by commitment-ruled interactions with respect to other proposals. We trace back such advantages to the possibility of relying on a standardized commitment lifecycle. We explain how to use the framework to program interacting agents by using the Netbill protocol as running example, and the Gold Miners scenario as a more complex programming example.
