Agent Communication

1. Front Matter

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2. Section I: Social Commitments

   1. Agent Communication and Institutional Reality

      • Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, Macro Colombetti

      Pages 1-17

   2. Conversational Semantics with Social Commitments

      • Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa

      Pages 18-32

   3. A Semantic Approach for Designing Commitment Protocols

      • Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 33-49

3. Section II: Multi-party Communication

   1. A Scalable Petri Net Representation of Interaction Protocols for Overhearing

      • Gery Gutnik, Gal Kaminka

      Pages 50-64

   2. First Steps Towards Multi-party Communication

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, Yves Demazeau

      Pages 65-75

4. Section III: Content Languages

   1. Optimal Communication Vocabularies and Heterogeneous Ontologies

      • Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert Jan Beun, Frank Dignum, Rogier M. van Eijk, John-Jules Meyer

      Pages 76-90

   2. Dealing with Time in Content Language Expressions

      • Mario Verdicchio, Marco Colombetti

      Pages 91-105

5. Section IV: Dialogues and Conversations

   1. Realizing Agent Dialogues with Distributed Protocols

      • Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson

      Pages 106-119

   2. Modeling Communicative Behavior Using Permissions and Obligations

      • Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin

      Pages 120-133

   3. Coherence Constraints for Agent Interaction

      • Joris Hulstijn, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani

      Pages 134-152

   4. Formulating Agent Communication Semantics and Pragmatics as Behavioral Expectations

      • Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss

      Pages 153-172

   5. Agent Interaction Semantics by Timed Operating Instructions

      • Mirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci

      Pages 173-192

6. Section V: Speech Acts

   1. Dialogization and Implicit Information in an Agent Communicational Model

      • Karim Bouzouba, Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin

      Pages 193-208

   2. Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols

      • Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons

      Pages 209-225

   3. Toward a Suite of Performatives Based Upon Joint Intention Theory

      • Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, David McGee

      Pages 226-241

   4. A Model of Rational Agency for Communicating Agents

      • Shakil M. Khan, Yves Lespérance

      Pages 242-259

7. Back Matter

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In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multiagent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous Workshops of which the proceedings have been published in earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is formed by the accepted submissions of the Workshop on Agent Communication held in c- junction with the AAMAS Conference in July 2004 in New York. The workshop received 26 submissions of which 14 were selected for publication in this v- ume. 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. The papers can roughly be divided over the following ?ve themes: – social commitments – multiparty communication – content languages – dialogues and conversations – speech acts Although these themes are of course not mutually exclusive they indicate some main directions of research. We therefore have arranged the papers in the book according to the topics indicated above.

• Scala
• agent argumentation
• agent communication
• agent communication languages
• agent communication protocols
• agent conversation
• agent interaction
• communicational semantics
• conversational semantics
• distributed protocols
• modeling
• ontologies
• ontology
• petri net
• semantics

• Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Rogier M. Eijk

• Leibniz-MAGMA, Grenoble, France

  Marc-Philippe Huget

• Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Frank Dignum

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