In this paper, we describe a framework to program open societies of concurrently operating agents. The agents maintain a subjective theory about their environment and interact with...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
When we start to engage machines in conversation, what language will it be? While natural language is our preferred means of communication, natural language processing is by no mea...
In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...