Agent Commitments and Ranking of Commitment Protocols

Abstract: The commitments play a central role in multi agent systems. The protocols specifies step by step rules of interaction between communicating agents and thus is a fundamental part of agent communication. The paper reviews the concept of agent communication and agent commitments. The agent commitment protocols are used for interaction between agents and can deliver messages between them to achieve their objectives. These protocols may be defined at design time by the designer, but it poses various problems. So protocols are generated at runtime by the agent depending on the situation. The ranking of protocols is done so as to select one protocol amongst all generated protocols. Accordingly, this paper proposes the method that can be used for the ranking of the commitment protocols, the factors that can be considered for ranking of the commitment protocols, the one with the highest rank is selected. .

Keywords: Agent, communication, commitments, protocols, ranking.