Issues in Agent Communication

by Dignum, Frank; Greaves, Mark

• ISBN13: 9783540411444
• ISBN10: 3540411445
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

A first attempt to develop a standardized agent communication language (ACL) resulted in KQML, probably the most widely used such language. However, a lot of technical work remains to be done. Even worse, so far, there seems to be little consensus on the basics of agent communication and there is no clear understanding of the semantics of individual speech acts or even of the basic concepts that should be used to define the semantics.This book documents two workshops on communication in MAS held in 1999, one on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies (SICP) and the other in Agent Communication Languages and presents the current state of the art of research in the field. A detailed introductory overview by the volume editors highlights a number of issues that play an important role in agent communication.

Table of Contents

ACL Semantics and Practice
Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction	1	(16)
Frank Dignum
Mark Greaves
Semantic, Normative and Practical Aspects of Agent Communication	17	(14)
Marco Colombetti
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages	31	(15)
Munindar P. Singh
Some Legal Aspects of Inter-agent Communication: From the Sincerity Condition to `Ethical' Agents	46	(17)
Jeremy Pitt
Abe Mamdani
Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction	63	(17)
Koen V. Hindriks
Frank S. de Boer
Wiebe van der Hoek
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages	80	(16)
Rogier M. van Eijk
Frank S. de Boer
Wiebe van der Hoek
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language	96	(22)
Benjamin N. Grosof
Yannis Labrou
Conversation Policy Description
What Is a Conversation Policy?	118	(14)
Mark Greaves
Heather Holmback
Jeffrey Bradshaw
The Role of Conversation Policy in Carrying Out Agent Conversations	132	(12)
Laurence R. Phillips
Hamilton E. Link
On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions	144	(16)
Scott A. Moore
Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture	160	(18)
Jeremy Pitt
Abe Mamdani
Conversation Specification
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling	178	(15)
Rost S. Cost
Ye Chen
Tim Finin
Yannis Labrou
Yun Peng
A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies	193	(12)
Fuhua Lin
Douglas H. Norrie
Weiming Shen
Rob Kremer
Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities	205	(15)
Marian H. Nodine
Amy Unruh
Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction	220	(15)
Mihai Barbuceanu
Wai-Kau Lo
ACL as a Joint Project between Participants: A Preliminary Report	235	(14)
Laurent Vongkasem
Brahim Chaib-draa
Conversation Protocols: Modeling and Implementing Conversations in Agent-Based Systems	249	(15)
Francisco J. Martin
Enric Plaza
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Conversations and Tasks
Dialogue in Team Formation	264	(17)
Frank Dignum
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz
Rineke Verbrugge
Uncertain Knowledge Representation and Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense	281	(20)
Sanguk Noh
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
On Abstract Models and Conversation Policies	301	(13)
Renee Elio
Afsaneh Haddadi
Investigating Interactions between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components	314	(17)
Thomas Wagner
Brett Benyo
Victor Lesser
Ping Xuan
An Executable Modal of the Interaction between Verbal and Non-verbal Communication	331	(20)
Catholijn M. Jonker
Jan Treur
Wouter C.A. Wijngaards
Author Index	351