WhiteCat: Making agent roles perceivable

Agents are social and autonomous entities that can take great advantages of interaction modelling. Role-Based Collaboration (RBC)[4] is an emerging methodology to facilitate an organizational structure, provide orderly system behavior, and consolidate system security for both human and non-human entities that collaborate and coordinate their activities with or within systems. Interaction management must, however, be able to handle run-time and dynamic scenarios. Hence every RBC system must provide a good level of dynamism, that is providing the capability of an agent to assume, use and release a role depending on run-time conditions.