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E-institutions are envisioned as facilities on the Internet for heterogeneous software agents to perform their interactions and thus forming truly open agent systems. We investigate how these heterogeneous agents can determine whether an institution is one in which they can participate. We propose a layered approach which is supported through a (traditional) middle agent that is part of the environment. Starting with a basic compatibility of message types, each extra layer ensures a higher degree of compatibility, but requires also extra sophistication in both the information required and the matching algorithms. In this paper, we describe reasoning about how an agent should take on a specific role, message matching, and protocol compatibility. We explore the issues in the context of an actual accommodation agent built in JACK, and a travel agency institution built in ISLANDER.
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Dignum, F., Dignum, V., Thangarajah, J., Padgham, L., Winikoff, M. (2008). Open Agent Systems ???. In: Luck, M., Padgham, L. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII. AOSE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4951. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79488-2_6
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