Advances in Agent Communication

1. Front Matter

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2. Section I: Fundamentals of Agent Communication

   1. Conventional Signalling Acts and Conversation

      • Andrew J. I. Jones, Xavier Parent

      Pages 1-17

   2. An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems

      • Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiss

      Pages 18-36

   3. An Exploration in Using Cognitive Coherence Theory to Automate BDI Agents’ Communicational Behavior

      • Philippe Pasquier, Nicolas Andrillon, Marc-André Labrie, Brahim Chaib-draa

      Pages 37-58

   4. A Performative Type Hierarchy and Other Interesting Considerations in the Design of the CASA Agent Architecture

      • Rob Kremer, Roberto Flores, Chad La Fournie

      Pages 59-74

   5. Model Checking for ACL Compliance Verification

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, Michael Wooldridge

      Pages 75-90

   6. Logic-Based Agent Communication Protocols

      • Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Francesca Toni

      Pages 91-107

3. Section II: Agent Communication and Commitments

   1. Protocol Specification Using a Commitment Based ACL

      • Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti

      Pages 108-127

   2. A Logical Model of Social Commitment for Agent Communication

      • Mario Verdicchio, Marco Colombetti

      Pages 128-145

   3. Commitment and Argument Network: A New Formalism for Agent Communication

      • Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, Brahim Chaib-draa

      Pages 146-165

   4. Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents

      • Ashok U. Mallya, Pınar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 166-182

   5. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines

      • Amit Chopra, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 183-200

4. Section III: Communication within Groups of Agents

   1. Issues in Multiparty Dialogues

      • David Traum

      Pages 201-211

   2. Towards a Testbed for Multi-party Dialogues

      • Frank P. M. Dignum, Gerard A. W. Vreeswijk

      Pages 212-230

   3. Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report

      • Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, François Legras

      Pages 231-253

   4. LOTTO: Group Formation by Overhearing in Large Teams

      • François Legras, Catherine Tessier

      Pages 254-270

   5. Proactive Communications in Agent Teamwork

      • John Yen, Xiaocong Fan, Richard A. Volz

      Pages 271-290

5. Section IV: Dialogues

   1. Modularity in Interaction Protocols

      • Benjamin Vitteau, Marc-Philippe Huget

      Pages 291-309

   2. Concepts of Optimal Utterance in Dialogue: Selection and Complexity

      • Paul E. Dunne, Peter McBurney

      Pages 310-328

   3. The Mechanics of Some Formal Inter-agent Dialogues

      • Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Michael Wooldridge

      Pages 329-348

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 earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is the accepted s- missions of the workshop on Agent Communication Languages which was held in conjunction with the AAMAS conference in July 2003 in Melbourne. The workshop received 15 submissions of which 12 were selected for publication in this volume. Although the number of submissions was less than expected for an important area like Agent Communication there is no reason to worry that this area does not get enough attention from the agent community. First of all, the 12 selected papers are all of high quality. The high acceptance rate is only due to this high quality and not to the necessity to select a certain number of papers. Besides the high-quality workshop papers, we noticed that many papers on Agent Communication found their way to the main conference. We decided therefore to invite a number of authors to revise and extend their papers from this conference and to combine them with the workshop papers. We believe that the current collection comprises a very good and quite complete overview of the state of the art in this area of research and gives a good indication of the topics that are of major interest at the moment.

• agent communication
• agent communication languages
• agent communication protocols
• agent conversation
• agent cooperation
• agents
• autonom
• commitments
• communication
• complexity
• group communication
• model checking
• multi-agent systems
• multi-party dialogues
• verification

• Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Frank Dignum

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