Advances in Agent Communication International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages, ACL 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003. Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dignum, Frank (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2922
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.

InthisbookwepresentacollectionofpapersaroundthetopicofAgentCom- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multi-agent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous workshops, the proceedings of which have been published in earl...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Fundamentals of Agent Communication
• Conventional Signalling Acts and Conversation
• An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems
• An Exploration in Using Cognitive Coherence Theory to Automate BDI Agents’ Communicational Behavior
• A Performative Type Hierarchy and Other Interesting Considerations in the Design of the CASA Agent Architecture
• Model Checking for ACL Compliance Verification
• Logic-Based Agent Communication Protocols
• Section II: Agent Communication and Commitments
• Protocol Specification Using a Commitment Based ACL
• A Logical Model of Social Commitment for Agent Communication
• Commitment and Argument Network: A New Formalism for Agent Communication
• Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents
• Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines
• Section III: Communication within Groups of Agents
• Issues in Multiparty Dialogues
• Towards a Testbed for Multi-party Dialogues
• Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report
• LOTTO: Group Formation by Overhearing in Large Teams
• Proactive Communications in Agent Teamwork
• Section IV: Dialogues
• Modularity in Interaction Protocols
• Concepts of Optimal Utterance in Dialogue: Selection and Complexity
• The Mechanics of Some Formal Inter-agent Dialogues
• A Cooperative Dialogue Game for Resolving Ontological Discrepancies
• The Posit Spaces Protocol for Multi-agent Negotiation
• On Interest-Based Negotiation.