Communication in Multiagent Systems Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Huget, Marc-Phillipe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 2650
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer logic.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts
• Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles
• Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving
• Current Trends
• Verification and Compliance Testing
• Process Algebra for Agent Communication: A General Semantic Approach
• Hierarchical Information Combination in Large-Scale Multiagent Resource Management
• A Perspective on Multiagent Coordination Models
• Argumentation-Based Communication between Agents
• Interaction Protocol Engineering
• An Organisational Approach to the Design of Interaction Protocols
• Design Agent Interaction as a Service to Agents
• A FIPA Compliant Goal Delegation Protocol
• Communication for Goal Directed Agents
• When Are Two Protocols the Same?
• Dialogue Game Protocols
• Request for Action Reconsidered as a Dialogue Game Based on Commitments
• Computational Model of Believable Conversational Agents
• Future
• The Future of Agent Communication.