Work on agent communication languages has since long striven to achieve adequate speech act semantics; partly, the problem is that references to an agent’s architecture (in parti...
Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
Social bookmarking systems and their emergent information structures, known as folksonomies, are increasingly important data sources for Semantic Web applications. A key question ...
Benjamin Markines, Ciro Cattuto, Filippo Menczer, ...
Current industry standards for describing Web Services are focused on ensuring interoperability across diverse platforms, but do not provide a good foundation for automating the u...
David L. Martin, Mark H. Burstein, Drew V. McDermo...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....