Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
The paper presents an approach to reasoning about Web services in a temporal action theory. Web services are described by specifying their interaction protocols in an action theory...
Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
Abstract. An agent communication protocol specifies the rules of interaction governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as n...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
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...