Home // COLLA 2017, The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications // View article

Ensuring Correctness of Agent Interactions in Collaborative Environments

Authors:
Elena Troubitsyna

Keywords: dynamic coalitions; interactions; goals; deviation analysis; formal modelling.

Abstract:
Ensuring correctness of agent interactions in complex systems constitutes a significant research challenge. The highly dynamic nature of the system makes it hard to predict all possible collaborations that the agents form during the system functioning. Therefore, it is desirable to create a generic abstract model that can facilitate reasoning about correctness of agent interactions in the complex dynamic collaborative environments. In this paper, we adopt a goal-oriented approach to reasoning about agent collaboration and define the basic abstractions underlying the behaviour of complex collaborative systems. Each agent has individual capabilities that are complemented and enhanced via cooperation to allow the system to achieve the desired goals. We define an abstract model of a system whose behaviour can be structured as a set of dynamic coalitions. We propose a structured approach to analysing possible deviations in the component interactions based on HAZOP – Hazard and Operability Study -- and formally define the impact of deviations in agent interactions on achieving the required goals.

Pages: 10 to 15

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: July 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-575-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 23, 2017 to July 27, 2017