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Issues in Agent Communication

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Frank Dignum

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

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  2. Mark Greaves

    1. Vulcan,  

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1916)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. ACL Semantics and Practice

    1. Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction

      • Frank Dignum, Mark Greaves
      Pages 1-16

    2. Semantic, Normative and Practical Aspects of Agent Communication

      • Marco Colombetti
      Pages 17-30

    3. A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages

      • Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 31-45

    4. Some Legal Aspects of Inter-agent Communication: From the Sincerity Condition to ‘Ethical’ Agents

      • Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
      Pages 46-62

    5. Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction

      • Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules C. Meyer
      Pages 63-79

    6. Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages

      • Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules C. Meyer
      Pages 80-95

    7. An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language

      • Benjamin N. Grosof, Yannis Labrou
      Pages 96-117

  3. Conversation Policy Description

    1. What Is a Conversation Policy?

      • Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback, Jeffrey Bradshaw
      Pages 118-131

    2. The Role of Conversation Policy in Carrying Out Agent Conversations

      • Laurence R. Phillips, Hamilton E. Link
      Pages 132-143

    3. On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions

      • Scott A. Moore
      Pages 144-159

    4. Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture

      • Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
      Pages 160-177

  4. Conversation Speci cation

    1. Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling

      • R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
      Pages 178-192

    2. A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies

      • Fuhua Lin, Douglas H. Norrie, Weiming Shen, Rob Kremer
      Pages 193-204

    3. Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities

      • Marian H. Nodine, Amy Unruh
      Pages 205-219

    4. Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction

      • Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo
      Pages 220-234

    5. ACL as a Joint Project between Participants: A Preliminary Report

      • Laurent Vongkasem, Brahim Chaib-draa
      Pages 235-248

    6. Conversation Protocols: Modeling and Implementing Conversations in Agent-Based Systems

      • Francisco J. Martin, Enric Plaza, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar
      Pages 249-263

  5. Conversations and Tasks

    1. Dialogue in Team Formation

      • Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Kȩplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
      Pages 264-280

    2. Uncertain Knowledge Representation and Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense

      • Sanguk Noh, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
      Pages 281-300
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A first attempt to develop a standardized agent communication language (ACL) resulted in KQML, probably the most widely used such language. However, a lot of technical work remains to be done. Even worse, so far, there seems to be little consensus on the basics of agent communication and there is no clear understanding of the semantics of individual speech acts or even of the basic concepts that should be used to define the semantics.
This book documents two workshops on communication in MAS held in 1999, one on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies (SICP) and the other in Agent Communication Languages and presents the current state of the art of research in the field. A detailed introductory overview by the volume editors highlights a number of issues that play an important role in agent communication.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Frank Dignum

  • Vulcan,  

    Mark Greaves

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