Protocol ontology and its application in extending JADE

As agents must comply with a protocol in any communication and interaction, each multi-agent platform had better offer a mechanism to enable agents dynamically load proper protocols according to the interaction mechanism. For this purpose, this paper proposes a protocol ontology framework, and implements it on the Java Agent Development framework (JADE) platform. Experiment results show that the agents can dynamically load the proper protocol according to the environment and realize the interaction under the government of the protocol very well.