多主体交互协议的表示和实现

A Representation and Implementation of the Multi-agent Interaction Protocol

多主体系统中,按照协议进行的交互具有显著的优点。文章首先提出一种交互协议表示方法,从协议描述和决策规则两方面来表示交互协议;然后改进主体的结构,提出一种知识层、会话控制层和通信层的三层结构,在原有主体结构中增加交互协议解释器。这种方法使得主体可以灵活地选择交互协议,同时将会话控制从知识层中分离出来,不仅使得交互更加可靠,而且减轻了主体推理的负担,简化了知识层的结构。

Protocol-based interactions have many prominent advantages in multi-agent system.This paper firstly presents a representation of interaction protocols,which expresses an interaction protocol as protocol description and decision-making rules.Then it proposes a three-layer agent structure which contains knowledge layer,conversation-control layer and communication layer.It embeds a protocol interpreter into the conversation-control layer to handle the interactions between agents.It enables the agents to choose protocols flexibly while reduces the burden for reasoning and simplifies the structure of knowledge layer.