Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, July 19, 2004 / Edition 1

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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.

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Agent communication and institutional reality 1
Conversational semantics with social commitments 18
A semantic approach for designing commitment protocols 33
A scalable petri net representation of interaction protocols for overhearing 50
First steps towards multi-party communication 65
Optimal communication vocabularies and heterogeneous ontologies 76
Dealing with time in content language expressions 91
Realizing agent dialogues with distributed protocols 106
Modeling communicative behavior using permissions and obligations 120
Coherence constraints for agent interaction 134
Formulating agent communication semantics and pragmatics as behavioral expectations 153
Agent interaction semantics by timed operating instructions 173
Dialogization and implicit information in an agent communicational model 193
Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction protocols 209
Toward a suite of performatives based upon joint intention theory 226
A model of rational agency for communicating agents 242
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