As we have seen in the Ontology Description phase and as specified by the FIPA architecture, a protocol has been used for each communication. All of them are standard FIPA protocols in our example. Usually the related documentation is given in form of AUML sequence diagrams. Hence the designer does not need to specify protocols by their own. In some cases, however, FIPA's existing protocols are not adequate and subsequently some dedicated ones need to be properly designed; this can be done using the same FIPA documentation's approach.
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