Primitive Interaction Protocols for Agents in a Dynamic Environment

This paper describes a generic multi-agent systems architecture for dynamic collaboration in an open environment. This architecture is described as composed of basic role-oriented processes communicating though primitive interaction protocols. The architecture is aimed to provide an enabling communications framework upon which multi-agent system (MAS) models can be organized and built. In particular, we plan to use this architecture in future research as an experimental test bed on which to study the suitability of human, face-to-face interaction factors—as described in the social sciences—as guidelines for analyzing and improving the interaction abilities of software agents.