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JAIR is pleased to announce the publication of the following article:
Gutnik, G. and Kaminka, G.A. (2006)
"Representing Conversations for Scalable Overhearing",
Volume 25, pages 349-387.
For quick access via your WWW browser, use this URL:
http://www.jair.org/abstracts/gutnik06a.html
Abstract:
Open distributed multi-agent systems are gaining interest in the
academic community and in industry. In such open settings, agents are
often coordinated using standardized agent conversation protocols. The
representation of such protocols (for analysis, validation,
monitoring, etc) is an important aspect of multi-agent
applications. Recently, Petri nets have been shown to be an
interesting approach to such representation, and radically different
approaches using Petri nets have been proposed. However, their
relative strengths and weaknesses have not been examined. Moreover,
their scalability and suitability for different tasks have not been
addressed. This paper addresses both these challenges. First, we
analyze existing Petri net representations in terms of their
scalability and appropriateness for overhearing, an important task in
monitoring open multi-agent systems. Then, building on the insights
gained, we introduce a novel representation using Colored Petri nets
that explicitly represent legal joint conversation states and
messages. This representation approach offers significant improvements
in scalability and is particularly suitable for
overhearing. Furthermore, we show that this new representation offers
a comprehensive coverage of all conversation features of FIPA
conversation standards. We also present a procedure for transforming
AUML conversation protocol diagrams (a standard human-readable
representation), to our Colored Petri net representation.
The article is available via:
-- comp.ai.jair.papers (also see comp.ai.jair.announce)
-- World Wide Web: The URL for our World Wide Web server is
http://www.jair.org/
For direct access to this article and related files try:
http://www.jair.org/abstracts/gutnik06a.html
-- Anonymous FTP from Carnegie-Mellon University (USA):
ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/jair/volume25/gutnik06a.ps
The compressed PostScript file is named gutnik06a.ps.Z
For more information about JAIR, visit our WWW or FTP sites, or
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Gal A. Kaminka, Ph.D. http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk
Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept. Bar Ilan University
Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible
"Death is an engineering problem." -- Bart Kosko, "Fuzzy Thinking"
"But life is not an engineering task." -- Gal A. Kaminka
Dear Gery,
Your JAIR article will be released today. Please check out our site at
www.jair.org to make sure everything looks the way you'd like it to. Below
you'll find a copy of the announcement we send out, in case there are any
special mailing lists you'd like to forward this to.
Best regards,
Steve Minton
JAIR is pleased to announce the publication of the following article:
Gutnik, G. and Kaminka, G.A. (2006)
"Representing Conversations for Scalable Overhearing",
Volume 25, pages 349-387.
For quick access via your WWW browser, use this URL:
http://www.jair.org/abstracts/gutnik06a.html
Abstract:
Open distributed multi-agent systems are gaining interest in the
academic community and in industry. In such open settings, agents are
often coordinated using standardized agent conversation protocols. The
representation of such protocols (for analysis, validation,
monitoring, etc) is an important aspect of multi-agent
applications. Recently, Petri nets have been shown to be an
interesting approach to such representation, and radically different
approaches using Petri nets have been proposed. However, their
relative strengths and weaknesses have not been examined. Moreover,
their scalability and suitability for different tasks have not been
addressed. This paper addresses both these challenges. First, we
analyze existing Petri net representations in terms of their
scalability and appropriateness for overhearing, an important task in
monitoring open multi-agent systems. Then, building on the insights
gained, we introduce a novel representation using Colored Petri nets
that explicitly represent legal joint conversation states and
messages. This representation approach offers significant improvements
in scalability and is particularly suitable for
overhearing. Furthermore, we show that this new representation offers
a comprehensive coverage of all conversation features of FIPA
conversation standards. We also present a procedure for transforming
AUML conversation protocol diagrams (a standard human-readable
representation), to our Colored Petri net representation.
The article is available via:
-- comp.ai.jair.papers (also see comp.ai.jair.announce)
-- World Wide Web: The URL for our World Wide Web server is
http://www.jair.org/
For direct access to this article and related files try:
http://www.jair.org/abstracts/gutnik06a.html
-- Anonymous FTP from Carnegie-Mellon University (USA):
ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/jair/volume25/gutnik06a.ps
The compressed PostScript file is named gutnik06a.ps.Z
For more information about JAIR, visit our WWW or FTP sites, or
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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