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

by Dignum, Frank; Eijk, Rogier M. van; Flores, Roberto

• ISBN13: 9783540681427
• ISBN10: 3540681426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the two International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, held in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2005, and in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as associated events of AAMAS 2005/2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected - they represent the best papers from the Agent Communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics of agent communication, commitments in agent communication, protocols and strategies, as well as reliability and overhearing.

Table of Contents

An operational model for the FIPA-ACL semantics	p. 1
Temporal logics for representing agent communication protocols	p. 15
ACL semantics between social commitments and mental attitudes	p. 30
On the semantics of conditional commitment	p. 45
A commitment-based communicative act library	p. 61
Integrating social commitment-based communication in cognitive agent modeling	p. 76
Flexible conversations using social commitments and a performatives hierarchy	p. 93
Using social commitments to control the agents' freedom of speech	p. 109
Practical issues in detecting broken social commitments	p. 124
Introducing preferences into commitment protocols	p. 136
On the study of negotiation strategies	p. 150
Strategies for ontology negotiation : finding the right level of generality	p. 164
Combining normal communication with ontology alignment	p. 181
Towards design tools for protocol development	p. 196
Adaptiveness in agent communication : application and adaptation of conversation patterns	p. 211
Can I please drop it? : dialogues about belief contraction	p. 227
Commitment-based policies in persuasion dialogues with defeasible beliefs	p. 243
Reliable group communication and institutional action in a multi-agent trading scenario	p. 258
A fault tolerant agent communication language for supporting Web agent interaction	p. 273
Experiments in selective overhearing of hierarchical organizations	p. 289
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