A NEW PERFORMATIVE FOR HANDLING LACK OF ANSWERS OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

2009

Abstract

An agent can send a message and never receive a response, this is what we name the ”empty mailbox problem” this paper is concerned with. The causes of the problem can lie in low level layer as, for instance, in communication links, but also in the behavior of the autonomous entity the agent is interacting with, which can choose not to respond. The task is not easy, for the agents developer, to find what is to do in such cases. The proposed solution consists in a performative and the associated meta-protocol. This results into a generic method to handle the empty mailbox problem in the case of temporary faults. Some prospects are given to handle permanent faults.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Potiron K., Taillibert P. and El Fallah Seghrouchni A. (2009). A NEW PERFORMATIVE FOR HANDLING LACK OF ANSWERS OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8111-66-1, pages 441-446. DOI: 10.5220/0001511704410446

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart09,
author={Katia Potiron and Patrick Taillibert and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni},
title={A NEW PERFORMATIVE FOR HANDLING LACK OF ANSWERS OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2009},
pages={441-446},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001511704410446},
isbn={978-989-8111-66-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A NEW PERFORMATIVE FOR HANDLING LACK OF ANSWERS OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
SN - 978-989-8111-66-1
AU - Potiron K.
AU - Taillibert P.
AU - El Fallah Seghrouchni A.
PY - 2009
SP - 441
EP - 446
DO - 10.5220/0001511704410446