TY  - CONF
T1  - Multi-Agent Systems’ Negotiation Protocols for Cyber-Physical Systems: Results from a Systematic Literature Review
A1  - Calvaresi, Davide
A1  - kevin appoggetti
A1  - Lustrissimini, Luca
A1  - Marinoni, Mauro
A1  - Sernani, Paolo
A1  - Dragoni, Aldo Franco
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
TI  - Proceedings of 10th International conference on agents and artificial intelligence (ICAART 2018)
Y1  - 2018
KW  - Cyber-Physical Systems
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - Negotiation
KW  - real-time systems
KW  - Software Engineering
N2  - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) require a multitude of components interacting among themselves and with the users to perform automatic actions, usually under unpredictable or uncertain conditions. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged over the years as one of the major technological paradigms regulating interactions and negotiations among autonomous entities running under heterogeneous conditions. As such, MAS have the potential to support CPS in implementing a highly reconfigurable distributed thinking. However, some gaps are still present between MAS’ features and the strict requirements of CPS. The most relevant is the lack of reliability, which is mainly due to specific features characterizing negotiation protocols. This paper presents
a systematic literature review of MAS negotiation protocols aiming at providing a comprehensive overview of their strengths and limitations, examining both the assumptions and requirements set during their development. While this work confirms the potential of MAS in regulating the interactions among CPS components, the findings also highlight the absence of real-time compliance in current negotiation protocols. Strongly characterizing CPS, the capability to face strict time constraints could bridge the gap between MAS and CPS.
ER  -