Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent代理通信/会议录

This state-of-the-art survey on agent communication is based on the International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 in conjunction with AAMAS 2004. Besides 14 thoroughly reviewed revised workshop papers, 2 papers by leading researchers were invited for inclusion in the book to complete coverage of the relevant topics.
The book presents a coherent and complete overview of the state of the art in agent communication. The papers are organized in topical sections on social commitments, multi-party communication, content languages, dialogues and conversations, and speech acts.

Section I: Social Commitments
Agent Communication and Institutional Reality
Conversational Semantics with
Social Commitments
A Semantic Approach for Designing Commitment Protocols
Section II: Multi-party Communication
A Scalable Petri Net Representation of Interaction Protocols for Overhearing
First Steps Towards Multi-party Communication
Section III:Content Languages
Optimal Communication Vocabularies and Heterogeneous Ontologies
Dealing with Time in Content Language Expressions
Section IV: Dialogues and Conversations
Realizing Agent Dialogues with Distributed Protocols
Modeling Communicative Behavior Using Permissions and Obligations
Coherence Constraints for Agent Interaction
Formulating Agent Communication Semantics and Pragmatics as Behavioral Expectations
Agent Interaction Semantics by Timed Operating Intstructions
Section V: Speech Acts
Dialogization and Implicit Information in an Agent Communicational Model
Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols
Toward a Suite of Performatives Based Upon Joint Intention Theory
A Model of Rational Agency for Communicating Agents
Author Index