Blockchain for Trustworthy Coordination: A First Study with LINDA and Ethereum

Giovanni Ciatto, S. Mariani, Andrea Omicini
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Blockchain technologies are rapidly gaining attention in the multi-agent systems (MAS) community to face critical issues such as trust, secured communications, and data consistency. In particular, the notion of smart contract can be exploited to deploy trustworthy computations automatically executed by the network in a consistent way. MAS coordination - modelling and engineering of agents interaction in a MAS - thus represents an appealing application field for smart contracts, potentially enabling fully-decentralised, trustworthy coordination. Along this line, we focus on the Ethereum blockchain technology, map it onto LINDA tuple-based coordination model, and discuss two proof-of-concept implementations of LINDA on Ethereum. We hence demonstrate conceptual and technical feasibility of blockchain-based coordination in MAS, while emphasising issues of applying the blockchain beyond accountability and identity management.
可信协调的区块链:与LINDA和以太坊的首次研究
区块链技术正迅速获得多代理系统(MAS)社区的关注,以应对诸如信任、安全通信和数据一致性等关键问题。特别是,可以利用智能合约的概念来部署由网络以一致的方式自动执行的可信计算。MAS协调——MAS中代理交互的建模和工程——因此代表了智能合约的一个有吸引力的应用领域,有可能实现完全分散的、可信的协调。沿着这条线,我们专注于以太坊区块链技术,将其映射到基于LINDA元组的协调模型,并讨论LINDA在以太坊上的两个概念验证实现。因此,我们展示了MAS基于区块链的协调的概念和技术可行性,同时强调了在问责制和身份管理之外应用区块链的问题。
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