Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies

✍ Scribed by Philip R. Cohen, C. Raymond Perrault (auth.), Marc-Philippe Huget (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2650 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts....Pages 1-36
Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles....Pages 37-50
Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving....Pages 51-97
Verification and Compliance Testing....Pages 98-112
Process Algebra for Agent Communication: A General Semantic Approach....Pages 113-128
Hierarchical Information Combination in Large-Scale Multiagent Resource Management....Pages 129-145
A Perspective on Multiagent Coordination Models....Pages 146-163
Argumentation-Based Communication between Agents....Pages 164-178
Interaction Protocol Engineering....Pages 179-193
An Organisational Approach to the Design of Interaction Protocols....Pages 194-208
Design Agent Interaction as a Service to Agents....Pages 209-222
A FIPA Compliant Goal Delegation Protocol....Pages 223-238
Communication for Goal Directed Agents....Pages 239-252
When Are Two Protocols the Same?....Pages 253-268
Dialogue Game Protocols....Pages 269-283
Request for Action Reconsidered as a Dialogue Game Based on Commitments....Pages 284-299
Computational Model of Believable Conversational Agents....Pages 300-317
The Future of Agent Communication....Pages 318-322
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs