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Enabling Agents to Dynamically Select Protocols for Interactions Jos´e Ghislain Quenum, Samir Aknine Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris6 75015 Paris, France 5 {jose.quenum, samir.aknine}@lip6.fr 0 0 2 Abstract task. Moreover, the set of protocols used in multi-agent in- n teractions is increasingly enlarging, and a static proto- a The work achieved in multi-agent interactions design col selection will only consider the protocols the designer J 5 mostly relates to protocols definition, specification, etc. In knows even if these agents have the capacity of inter- 2 this paper we tackle a new problem, the dynamic selection preting and executing other protocols unknown at de- of interaction protocols. Generally the protocols and the sign time. To overcome this limitation, we should enable ] roles agents play in protocol based interactions are imposed agents to dynamically select protocols in order to inter- A upon the system at design time. This selection mode severely act. M limits the system’s openness, the dynamic behaviours agents As yet, there have been some efforts [1, 4] to enable . can exhibit, the integration of new protocols, etc. To address agents to dynamically select the roles they play during inter- s c this issue, we developed a method which enables agents to actions using Markov Decision Processes, planning or even [ select protocols themselves at runtim