Abstract
In the context of a business process modeled by commitments, agents enact a protocol by carrying out goals that service their part of commitments. In a competitive or even in a cooperative setting, an agent does not know for sure that its partners will successfully act on their part of the commitments. We introduce uncertainty into a successful recent approach of planning first-order commitment protocols. Probabilities reflect a semantics of the belief of an agent about the successful completion of tasks by other agents within the protocol, capturing notions of trust. We take a deterministic Hierarchical Task Network (FITN) planner, introduce probabilities into the task networks, and derive a protocol enactment which maximizes expected utiLity from the point of view of one agent. We illustrate our approach on a business scenario in e-commerce.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AAMAS 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) |
| Pages | 1681-1682 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Volume | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450337717 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | AAMAS 2015: 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 4 May 2015 → 8 May 2015 Conference number: 14 |
Conference
| Conference | AAMAS 2015: 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
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| Abbreviated title | AAMAS 2015 |
| Country/Territory | Turkey |
| City | Istanbul |
| Period | 4/05/15 → 8/05/15 |
Keywords
- Commitments
- Hierarchical task networks
- Multi-agent planning
- Uncertainty