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The objective of the research described in this paper is to extend current agent platforms in order to provide both explicit, message-based and implicit, document-based communication and co-ordination within a uniform framework, and to make this unified framework available for the agent-oriented design and enactment of business processes. This is achieved by interfacing a BDI agent platform with an underlying peer-to-peer (P2P) platform, where the P2P framework is used to virtualize certain sections of the belief sets of the BDI agents; after a review of existing approaches to integrate multiagent with P2P concepts, a prototype technical realization is presented using two state-of-the art platforms: the Jack BDI agent platform and the P2P Business Resource Management Framework (BRMF) platform.
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Fischer, K., Müller, J.P., Stäber, F., Friese, T. (2007). Using Peer-to-Peer Protocols to Enable Implicit Communication in a BDI Agent Architecture. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., Seghrouchni, A.E.F. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71956-4_2
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