Advances in Agent Communication : International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages ACL 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 / edited by Frank Dignum.

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Book

Contributor:

Dignum, Frank, 1961- editor.

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Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 2922.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 2922

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Computer networks.

Software engineering.

Computer logic.

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Communication Networks.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Computer Communication Networks.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

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1 online resource (X, 410 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2004.

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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.

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Summary:

InthisbookwepresentacollectionofpapersaroundthetopicofAgentCom- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multi-agent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous workshops, the proceedings of which have been published in earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is the accepted s- missions of the workshop on Agent Communication Languages which was held in conjunction with the AAMAS conference in July 2003 in Melbourne. The workshop received 15 submissions of which 12 were selected for publication in this volume. Although the number of submissions was less than expected for an important area like Agent Communication there is no reason to worry that this area does not get enough attention from the agent community. First of all, the 12 selected papers are all of high quality. The high acceptance rate is only due to this high quality and not to the necessity to select a certain number of papers. Besides the high-quality workshop papers, we noticed that many papers on Agent Communication found their way to the main conference. We decided therefore to invite a number of authors to revise and extend their papers from this conference and to combine them with the workshop papers. We believe that the current collection comprises a very good and quite complete overview of the state of the art in this area of research and gives a good indication of the topics that are of major interest at the moment.

Contents:

Section I: Fundamentals of Agent Communication

Conventional Signalling Acts and Conversation

An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems

An Exploration in Using Cognitive Coherence Theory to Automate BDI Agents' Communicational Behavior

A Performative Type Hierarchy and Other Interesting Considerations in the Design of the CASA Agent Architecture

Model Checking for ACL Compliance Verification

Logic-Based Agent Communication Protocols

Section II: Agent Communication and Commitments

Protocol Specification Using a Commitment Based ACL

A Logical Model of Social Commitment for Agent Communication

Commitment and Argument Network: A New Formalism for Agent Communication

Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents

Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines

Section III: Communication within Groups of Agents

Issues in Multiparty Dialogues

Towards a Testbed for Multi-party Dialogues

Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report

LOTTO: Group Formation by Overhearing in Large Teams

Proactive Communications in Agent Teamwork

Section IV: Dialogues

Modularity in Interaction Protocols

Concepts of Optimal Utterance in Dialogue: Selection and Complexity

The Mechanics of Some Formal Inter-agent Dialogues

A Cooperative Dialogue Game for Resolving Ontological Discrepancies

The Posit Spaces Protocol for Multi-agent Negotiation

On Interest-Based Negotiation.

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978-3-540-24608-4

9783540246084

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