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AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Dialogue in Team Formation
The process of cooperative problem solving can be divided into four stages. First, finding potential team members, then forming a team followed by constructing a plan for that tea...
Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbru...
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Investigating Interactions between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components
Abstract. Exploring agent conversation in the context of fine-grained agent coordination research has raised several intellectual questions. The major issues pertain to interactio...
Thomas Wagner, Brett Benyo, Victor R. Lesser, Ping...
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal se...
Munindar P. Singh
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities
Conversation policies codify the allowable exchanges of speech acts among agents as they execute specific types of tasks. Both the set of agents in a community, and the nature of...
Marian H. Nodine, Amy Unruh
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions
The author describes a system for defining conversation policies that allows conversants to exchange explicit representations of how they use messages to get things done. This sy...
Scott A. Moore
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction
Intelligent agents in the agent language 3APL are computational entities consisting of beliefs and goals which make up their mental state. In this paper, we integrate communicatio...
Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der ...
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
What Is a Conversation Policy?
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...
Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback, Jeffrey Bradshaw
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
Abstract. In this paper, we study the operational semantics of agent communication languages.We develop a basic multi-agent programming language for systems of concurrently operati...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational mod...
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis L...