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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2650)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Current Trends
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Back Matter
About this book
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 major topics in multiagent systems.
This book presents the state of the art of research on communication in multiagent systems. First, three seminal papers by Cohen and Perrault, by Singh, and by Davis and Smith present background information and introduce the newcomer to the area. The main part of the book is devoted to current research work dealing with agent communication, communication for coordination and argumentation, protocols, and dialogue games and conversational agents. Finally, the last paper deals with the future of agent communication.
Keywords
- Argumentation
- Delegation
- MAS
- agent cooperation
- agent coordination
- agent interaction
- agents
- communication
- communication protocols
- distributed problem solving
- interaction protocols
- multiagent systems
- problem solving
- protocol engineering
- verification
Editors and Affiliations
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Leibniz-MAGMA, Grenoble, France
Marc-Philippe Huget
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communication in Multiagent Systems
Book Subtitle: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies
Editors: Marc-Philippe Huget
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b12446
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40385-2Published: 25 June 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44972-0Published: 09 September 2003
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 328
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering, Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming