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This paper presents a formal framework devised to support interaction protocol (IP) engineering. The proposed framework is organized into three views that consider all the stages of a protocol engineering process, i.e. the design, specification, validation, implementation and management of IPs. The modeling view allows visual IP design. The specification view automatically outputs, from the design, the syntactic specification of the IPs in a declarative-type language called ACSL, which improves IP publication, localization and machine learning by agents. Finally, the implementation view provides a formal operational semantics for the ACSL language. This semantics allows protocol property verification and eases automatic code generation from the ACSL specification for the purpose of simulating code execution at design time, as well as improving and assuring correct IP compliance at run time.
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Alonso, F., Frutos, S., López, G., Soriano, J. (2005). A Formal Framework for Interaction Protocol Engineering. In: Pěchouček, M., Petta, P., Varga, L.Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV. CEEMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11559221_3
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