caa a22 4500 605514798 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10458-014-9264-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10458-014-9264-2 Muon: designing multiagent communication protocols from interaction scenarios [Elektronische Daten] [Anup Kalia, Munindar Singh] Designing a suitable communication protocol is a key challenge in engineering a multiagent system. This paper proposes Muon, an approach that begins from representative samples of interactions or scenarios. Muon identifies key semantic structures and patterns based on (social) commitments to formally analyze the scenarios and offers a methodology for designing protocols that would meet stakeholder needs. Interestingly, Muon applies its formal representations to suggest ways to identify additional scenarios needed to address exceptions arising in the interactions. This paper contributes (1) a conceptual model of message types and causal relationships among them as a foundation for developing commitment-based communication protocols; (2) a robust, reusable characterization of semantic structures reflecting the above model; (3) a mapping from an annotated scenario to causally related interactions; and (4) a methodology to synthesize specifications of communication protocols. This paper reports on an empirical evaluation involving developers creating protocols from two real-life cases. The Author(s), 2014 Commitments nationallicence Protocols nationallicence Interactions nationallicence Dooley graphs nationallicence Kalia Anup North Carolina State University, 27695-8206, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Singh Munindar North Carolina State University, 27695-8206, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2015-07-01), 621-657 1387-2532 29:4<621 2015 29 10458 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-014-9264-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-014-9264-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kalia Anup North Carolina State University, 27695-8206, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Singh Munindar North Carolina State University, 27695-8206, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2015-07-01), 621-657 1387-2532 29:4<621 2015 29 10458