Communicationbased

Communicationbased is an adjective used to describe approaches, systems, or practices that center on the exchange of information through communication. The term is commonly written with a hyphen as communication-based in scholarly and technical writings. It is applied across fields to indicate that coordination, collaboration, or information flow depends on explicit communicative processes rather than implicit or shared-state mechanisms.

In distributed computing and multi-agent systems, a communication-based design emphasizes message passing, protocols, and conversational interfaces between components. Components interact by sending and receiving structured messages, enabling decoupling, scalability, and fault isolation. Typical paradigms include the actor model, message queues, and publish-subscribe systems, where the correctness and performance of the system rely on reliable communication patterns rather than shared memory.

In education, healthcare, and organizational contexts, communication-based methods focus on tasks that require dialog, negotiation, and information exchange to achieve outcomes. Examples include collaborative problem-solving activities, role-play simulations, and communication training designed to improve information transfer, listening, and feedback.

Implementation considerations include defining clear message schemas, choosing appropriate communication protocols, ensuring reliability, ordering guarantees, and security. Trade-offs often involve latency, bandwidth, complexity of protocol design, and potential fragility in the face of network partitions or message loss.

Related concepts include distributed systems, interprocess communication, and collaborative work practices. The term is also used descriptively to contrast with approaches that rely on shared memory.