Advertisement

Issues in Agent Communication

  • Frank Dignum
  • Mark Greaves
Book

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 1916)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 1916)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    PDF

  2. ACL Semantics and Practice

    1. Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction
      Frank Dignum, Mark Greaves
      Pages 1-16
    2. Semantic, Normative and Practical Aspects of Agent Communication
      Marco Colombetti
      Pages 17-30
    3. A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
      Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 31-45
    4. Some Legal Aspects of Inter-agent Communication: From the Sincerity Condition to ‘Ethical’ Agents
      Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
      Pages 46-62
    5. Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction
      Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules C. Meyer
      Pages 63-79
    6. Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
      Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules C. Meyer
      Pages 80-95
    7. An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language
      Benjamin N. Grosof, Yannis Labrou
      Pages 96-117

  3. Conversation Policy Description

    1. What Is a Conversation Policy?
      Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback, Jeffrey Bradshaw
      Pages 118-131
    2. The Role of Conversation Policy in Carrying Out Agent Conversations
      Laurence R. Phillips, Hamilton E. Link
      Pages 132-143
    3. On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions
      Scott A. Moore
      Pages 144-159
    4. Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture
      Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
      Pages 160-177

  4. Conversation Speci cation

    1. Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling
      R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Yun Peng
      Pages 178-192
    2. A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies
      Fuhua Lin, Douglas H. Norrie, Weiming Shen, Rob Kremer
      Pages 193-204
    3. Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities
      Marian H. Nodine, Amy Unruh
      Pages 205-219
    4. Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction
      Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo
      Pages 220-234
    5. ACL as a Joint Project between Participants: A Preliminary Report
      Laurent Vongkasem, Brahim Chaib-draa
      Pages 235-248
    6. Conversation Protocols: Modeling and Implementing Conversations in Agent-Based Systems
      Francisco J. Martin, Enric Plaza, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar
      Pages 249-263

  5. Conversations and Tasks

    1. Dialogue in Team Formation
      Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Kȩplicz, Rineke Verbrugge
      Pages 264-280
    2. Uncertain Knowledge Representation and Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense
      Sanguk Noh, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
      Pages 281-300
    3. On Abstract Models and Conversation Policies
      Renée Elio, Afsaneh Haddadi
      Pages 301-313
    4. Investigating Interactions between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components
      Thomas Wagner, Brett Benyo, Victor Lesser, Ping Xuan
      Pages 314-330
    5. An Executable Model of the Interaction between Verbal and Non-verbal Communication
      Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Wouter C. A. Wijngaards
      Pages 331-350
  6. Back Matter
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

ACL Semantics Agent Collaboration Agent Communication Agent Communication Languages Agent Conversation Agent Coordination Agent Systems Distributed Artificial Intelligence Distributed Systems agents knowledge representation modeling multi-agent system programming semantics

Editors and affiliations

  • Frank Dignum
    • 1
  • Mark Greaves
    • 2
  1. 1.Dept. Information and Computing SciencesUtrecht UniversityThe Netherlands
  2. 2.Vulcan 

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/10722777
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-41144-4
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-40028-8
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
  • Buy this book on publisher's site