A Modular Action Description Language for Protocol Composition

Abstract

Protocols are modular abstractions that capture patterns of in-teraction among agents. The compelling vision behind pro-tocols is to enable creating customized interactions by refin-ing and composing existing protocols. Realizing this vision presupposes (1) maintaining repositories of protocols and (2) refining and composing selected protocols. To this end, this paper synthesizes recent advances on protocols and on the knowledge representation of actions. This paper presents MAD-P, a modular action description language tailored for protocols. MAD-P enables building an aggregation hierar-chy of protocols via composition. This paper demonstrates the value of such compositions via a simplified, but realistic, business scenario.

Cite

Text

Desai and Singh. "A Modular Action Description Language for Protocol Composition." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

Markdown

[Desai and Singh. "A Modular Action Description Language for Protocol Composition." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2007/desai2007aaai-modular/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{desai2007aaai-modular,
  title     = {{A Modular Action Description Language for Protocol Composition}},
  author    = {Desai, Nirmit and Singh, Munindar P.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2007},
  pages     = {962-967},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2007/desai2007aaai-modular/}
}