This book is devoted to the design and analysis of techniques enabling intelligent and dynamic cooperation and communication among agents in a distributed environment. A flexible theoretical formalism is developed in detail and it is demonstrated how this approach can be used for the design of agent architectures in practice. The formal part of this work is based on a variant of the BDI logic introduced by Georgeff and Rao. This book, for the first time, outlines this formalism in some depth. The most important practical benefit provided is the concept of cooperation protocols allowing the representation of various methods of cooperation and possible patterns of dialogue.

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Book Title: Communication and Cooperation in Agent Systems
Book Subtitle: A Pragmatic Theory
Editors: Afsaneh Haddadi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61044-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-61044-1Published: 17 April 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49876-6Published: 01 July 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 152
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Computer Communication Networks, Information Storage and Retrieval

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Front Matter

Introduction

Review of the theories on agents as intentional systems

A formal theory of commitments

Specification of reasoning behind interactions

Modelling interactions in COSY agent architecture

Summary and conclusion

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