@inproceedings{e447d4b488b049479da077e22a4be634,
title = "Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction",
abstract = "The field of multi-agent systems shifts attention from one particular agent to a society of agents; hence the interactions between agents in the society become critical towards the achievement of their goals. We assume that the interactions are managed via a protocol which enables agents to coordinate their actions in order to handle the dependencies that exist between their activities. However, the agents{\textquoteright} failures to comply with the constraints imposed by the protocol may cause the agents to have brittle interactions. To address this problem, a constraint relaxation approach derived from the Distributed Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is proposed. This paper describes the computational aspects of the approach (i.e. specification of a distance metric, searching for a solvable problem and specification of a global distance function).",
author = "F. Hassan and D. Robertson",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-89674-6_24",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-540-89673-9",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "214--221",
booktitle = "Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems",
address = "United Kingdom",
}