Agent Communication : International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, July 19 2004

by Van Eijk, Rogier M.; Huget, Marc-Philippe; Dignum, Frank

• ISBN13: 9783540250159
• ISBN10: 3540250158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This state-of-the-art survey on agent communication is based on the International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 in conjunction with AAMAS 2004. Besides 14 thoroughly reviewed revised workshop papers, 2 papers by leading researchers were invited for inclusion in the book to complete coverage of the relevant topics. The book presents a coherent and complete overview of the state of the art in agent communication. The papers are organized in topical sections on social commitments, multi-party communication, content languages, dialogues and conversations, and speech acts.

Table of Contents

Section I: Social Commitments
Agent Communication and Institutional Reality
Nicoletta Fornara, Fransesco Viganò, Marco Colombetti	1	(17)
Conversational Semantics with Social Commitments
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib-draa	18	(15)
A Semantic Approach for Designing Commitment Protocols
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh	33	(17)
Section II: Multi-party Communication
A Scalable Petri Net Representation of Interaction Protocols for Overhearing
Gery Gutnik, Gal Kaminka	50	(15)
First Steps Towards Multi-party Communication
Marc-Philippe Huget, Yves Demazeau	65	(11)
Section III: Content Languages
Optimal Communication Vocabularies and Heterogeneous Ontologies
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert Jan Beun, Frank Dignum, Rogier M. van Eijk, John-Jules Meyer	76	(15)
Dealing with Time in Content Language Expressions
Mario Verdicchio, Marco Colombetti	91	(15)
Section IV: Dialogues and Conversations
Realizing Agent Dialogues with Distributed Protocols
Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson	106	(14)
Modeling Communicative Behavior Using Permissions and Obligations
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin	120	(14)
Coherence Constraints for Agent Interaction
Joris Hulstijn, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani	134	(19)
Formulating Agent Communication Semantics and Pragmatics as Behavioral Expectations
Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss	153	(20)
Agent Interaction Semantics by Timed Operating Intstructions
Mirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci	173	(20)
Section V: Speech Acts
Dialogization and Implicit Information in an Agent Communicational Model
Karim Bouzouba, Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin	193	(16)
Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols
Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons	209	(17)
Toward a Suite of Performatives Based Upon Joint Intention Theory
Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar, David McGee	226	(16)
A Model of Rational Agency for Communicating Agents
Shakil M. Khan, Yves Lespérance	242	(19)
Author Index	261