---
title: "Requirement Patterns for Engineering Multiagent Interaction Protocols"
authors:
  - "Amit K. Chopra"
  - "Samuel H. Christie V."
  - "Munindar P. Singh"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2025/5"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/5"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/0005.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2025
pages: "38-46"
track: "Main Track"
keywords:
  - "Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Agent communication"
  - "Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Engineering methods, platforms, languages and tools"
---

# Requirement Patterns for Engineering Multiagent Interaction Protocols

Amit K. Chopra, Samuel H. Christie V., Munindar P. Singh

*Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 38-46. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2025/5](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/5)

## Abstract

An interaction protocol specifies how the member agents of a decentralized multiagent system may communicate to satisfy their respective stakeholders' requirements. We focus on information protocols, which are fully declarative specifications of interaction and support asynchronous communication. We offer Mambo, an approach for protocol design. Mambo identifies common patterns of requirements, provides a notation to express them, and a verification procedure. Mambo incorporates heuristics to generate small internal representations for efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate Mambo's effectiveness on practical protocols.