Knowledge-based Algorithms for Multi-agent Communication

Manual

In this section the interface of the simulation will be explained.

Agents

The agents in this simulation are Tom, Theije and Richard. They are represented by boxes. If the box is green, it means that they are receivers. (Not the initiator). If the box is orange, it means that agent is initiator. In the upper right corner of the box is the name of the agent of which this agent believes it is the initiator.

History

In a sense, the agents are buttons. By clicking on them, the history of received packages can be reviewed.

Packages

Packages are of the following form:

source|destination|group|sequence|acknowledgement
                       data

source: source port where this package is sent from [S,Ri];
destination: destination port of message [S,Ri]
group: group receivers to which the message is sent [G, - ], "-" means that the sender communicates only to the destination (one-on-one communication)
sequence: sequence number of message from agent who sends this message;
acknowledgement: sequence number of message that agent is reacting to;
data: data that has to be transmitted.

Buttons

There is a Reset button with which you can (re)start the simulation. There is also a slider next to the restart button, with which you can adjust the speed of the simulation. It is nice to restart the simulation several times. This will show that the initial initiator is chosen randomly. Also, the dialogues proceed with some randomness built in. In all scenarios, indexing will be correct, and initiator changes will always be succesful.

Multi-agent Communication