Issues in Agent Communication (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1916)

✍ Scribed by Frank Dignum (editor), Mark Greaves (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
ACL Semantics and Practice
Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction
Semantic, Normative and Practical Aspects of Agent Communication
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
Some Legal Aspects of Inter-agent Communication: From the Sincerity Condition to `Ethical' Agents
Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction
Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language
Conversation Policy Description
What Is a Conversation Policy?
The Role of Conversation Policy in Carrying Out Agent Conversations
On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions
Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture
Conversation Speci cation
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling
A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies
Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities
Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction
ACL as a Joint Project between Participants: A Preliminary Report
Conversation Protocols: Modeling and Implementing Conversations in Agent-Based Systems
Conversations and Tasks
Dialogue in Team Formation
Uncertain Knowledge Representation and Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense
On Abstract Models and Conversation Policies
Investigating Interactions between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components
An Executable Model of the Interaction between Verbal and Non-verbal Communication
Backmatter