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Communication in Multiagent Systems

Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Marc-Philippe Huget

    1. Leibniz-MAGMA, Grenoble, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2650)

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

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Background

    1. Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts

      • Philip R. Cohen, C. Raymond Perrault
      Pages 1-36

    2. Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles

      • Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 37-50

    3. Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving

      • Randall Davis, Reid G. Smith
      Pages 51-97

  3. Current Trends

    1. Verification and Compliance Testing

      • Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt
      Pages 98-112

    2. Process Algebra for Agent Communication: A General Semantic Approach

      • Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
      Pages 113-128

    3. Hierarchical Information Combination in Large-Scale Multiagent Resource Management

      • Osher Yadgar, Sarit Kraus, Charles L. Ortiz Jr.
      Pages 129-145

    4. A Perspective on Multiagent Coordination Models

      • Laura Bocchi, Paolo Ciancarini
      Pages 146-163

    5. Argumentation-Based Communication between Agents

      • Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney
      Pages 164-178

    6. Interaction Protocol Engineering

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, Jean-Luc Koning
      Pages 179-193

    7. An Organisational Approach to the Design of Interaction Protocols

      • Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski
      Pages 194-208

    8. Design Agent Interaction as a Service to Agents

      • Marc-Philippe Huget
      Pages 209-222

    9. A FIPA Compliant Goal Delegation Protocol

      • Federico Bergenti, Giovanni Rimassa, Matteo Somacher, Luis Miguel Botelho
      Pages 223-238

    10. Communication for Goal Directed Agents

      • Mehdi Dastani, Jeroen van der Ham, Frank Dignum
      Pages 239-252

    11. When Are Two Protocols the Same?

      • Mark W. Johnson, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
      Pages 253-268

    12. Dialogue Game Protocols

      • Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
      Pages 269-283

    13. Request for Action Reconsidered as a Dialogue Game Based on Commitments

      • Brahim Chaib-draa, Marc-André Labrie, Nicholas Maudet
      Pages 284-299

    14. Computational Model of Believable Conversational Agents

      • Catherine Pelachaud, Massimo Bilvi
      Pages 300-317

  4. Future

    1. The Future of Agent Communication

      • Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 318-322

  5. Back Matter

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 Agents in multiagent systems are concurrent autonomous entities that need to coordinate and to cooperate so as to perform their tasks; these coordination and cooperation tasks might be achieved through communication. Communication, also called interaction by some authors, thus represents one of the major topics in multiagent systems.

This book presents the state of the art of research on communication in multiagent systems. First, three seminal papers by Cohen and Perrault, by Singh, and by Davis and Smith present background information and introduce the newcomer to the area. The main part of the book is devoted to current research work dealing with agent communication, communication for coordination and argumentation, protocols, and dialogue games and conversational agents. Finally, the last paper deals with the future of agent communication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leibniz-MAGMA, Grenoble, France

    Marc-Philippe Huget

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