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Agent Communication II

International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3859)

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

Conference series link(s): AC: International Workshop on Agent Communication

Conference proceedings info: AC 2005. AC 2006.

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Section I: Semantics of Agent Communication

    1. An Operational Model for the FIPA-ACL Semantics

      • Vincent Louis, Thierry Martinez
      Pages 1-14
    2. ACL Semantics Between Social Commitments and Mental Attitudes

      • Guido Boella, Rossana Damiano, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert van der Torre
      Pages 30-44
    3. On the Semantics of Conditional Commitment

      • Shakil M. Khan, Yves Lespérance
      Pages 45-60
  3. Section II: Commitments in Agent Communication

    1. A Commitment-Based Communicative Act Library

      • Mario Verdicchio, Marco Colombetti
      Pages 61-75
    2. Using Social Commitments to Control the Agents’ Freedom of Speech

      • Guillaume Muller, Laurent Vercouter
      Pages 109-123
    3. Practical Issues in Detecting Broken Social Commitments

      • Jason Heard, Rob Kremer
      Pages 124-135
    4. Introducing Preferences into Commitment Protocols

      • Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 136-149
  4. Section III: Protocols and Strategies

    1. On the Study of Negotiation Strategies

      • Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci
      Pages 150-163
    2. Strategies for Ontology Negotiation: Finding the Right Level of Generality

      • Jurriaan van Diggelen, Edwin D. de Jong, Marco A. Wiering
      Pages 164-180
    3. Combining Normal Communication with Ontology Alignment

      • Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert Jan Beun, Frank Dignum, Rogier M. van Eijk, John-Jules Meyer
      Pages 181-195
    4. Towards Design Tools for Protocol Development

      • Pýnar Yolum
      Pages 196-210
    5. Adaptiveness in Agent Communication: Application and Adaptation of Conversation Patterns

      • Felix Fischer, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss
      Pages 211-226
    6. Can I Please Drop It? Dialogues About Belief Contraction

      • Henk-Jan Lebbink, Cilia Witteman, John-Jules Meyer
      Pages 227-242
    7. Commitment-Based Policies in Persuasion Dialogues with Defeasible Beliefs

      • Ioan Alfred Letia, Raluca Vartic
      Pages 243-257
  5. Section IV: Reliability and Overhearing

    1. A Fault Tolerant Agent Communication Language for Supporting Web Agent Interaction

      • Nicola Dragoni, Mauro Gaspari, Davide Guidi
      Pages 273-288

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About this book

Although everyone recognizes communication as a central concept in mul- agents, many no longer see agent communication as a research topic. Unf- tunately there seems to be a tendency to regard communication as a kind of information exchange that can easily be covered using the standard FIPA ACL. However, the papers in this volume show that research in agent communication is far from ?nished. If we want to develop the full potential of multi-agent s- tems, agent communication should also develop to a level beyond parameter or value passing as is done in OO approaches! In this book we present the latest collection of papers around the topic of agentcommunication.Thecollectioncomprisesofthebestpapersfromtheagent communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. Due to some unfortunate circumstances the proceedings of the 2005 workshop were delayed, but it gave us the opportunity to join the best papers of the 2006 edition to this volume. Together these papers give a very good overview of the state of the art in this areaofresearchandgiveagoodindicationofthetopicsthatareofmajorinterest at the moment.

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