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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.21
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9206
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Agerri, Rodrigo

Norms of Conversation in a Framework for Agent Communication Languages

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Abstract

In open and heterogeneous environments offered by the Internet,
where agents are designed by different vendors, the development of
standards for agent communication needs to keep abreast of new dynamic
interaction modalities. The objective of this paper is to contribute
to FIPA's standardization effort by proposing a pragmatic approach to
the design of agent communication languages (ACLs) in which the
meaning of messages is the combination of its semantics and
pragmatics. First, we present a reformulation of FIPA's communicative
acts (ACL semantics) using a grounded specification language which
overcomes some of the usual problems attributed to FIPA's ACL
semantics. Then the ACL pragmatics aims to account for the contextual
factors that enriches the semantics, such agents' roles, turn-taking,
and the satisfiability of messages' perlocutionary effects.
We claim that the ACL pragmatics is best
specified by means of norms related to agents' obligations,
permissions and rights.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{agerri:DagSemProc.07122.21,
  author =	{Agerri, Rodrigo},
  title =	{{Norms of Conversation in a Framework for Agent Communication Languages}},
  booktitle =	{Normative Multi-agent Systems},
  pages =	{1--43},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7122},
  editor =	{Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre and Harko Verhagen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/920},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9206},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Agent Communication Languages, Norms, Multi-Agent Systems}
}

Keywords: Agent Communication Languages, Norms, Multi-Agent Systems
Collection: 07122 - Normative Multi-agent Systems
Issue Date: 2007
Date of publication: 12.03.2007

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