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AGENTCL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 9 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...
MASA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent Agents: The Key Concepts
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
Michael Wooldridge
MASA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Motivated Agent Behaviour and Requirements Applied to Virtual Emergencies
Virtual environments provide a rich and varied domain for intelligent agents, but questions of design and development in this context are still to be answered. An agent with multip...
Sorabain Wolfheart de Lioncourt, Michael Luck
IWSAS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Agent Based System for State Estimation Using Dynamic Multidimensional Information Sources
: This paper describes a new approach for the creation of an adaptive system able to selectively combine dynamic multidimensional information sources to perform state estimation. T...
Alvaro Soto, Pradeep K. Khosla
ESAW
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Engineering Infrastructures for Mobile Organizations
Mobile application components can be effectively and uniformly modeled in terms of autonomous agents moving across different context during execution. In this paper, we introduce a...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Marco Mamei, Fran...