Communication in Multiagent Systems Agent Communication Language
Agents in multiagent systems are concurrent autonomous entities that need to coordinate and to cooperate so as to perform their tasks; these coordination and cooperation tasks might be achieved through communication. Communication, also called inter
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Marc-Philippe Huget (Ed.)
Communication in Multiagent Systems Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editor Marc-Philippe Huget University of Liverpool, Department of Computer Science Agent Applications, Research and Technology Group Chadwick Building, Peach Street, L69 7ZF Liverpool, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, C.2, D.2, F.3 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-40385-X Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Markus Richter, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10937761 06/3142 543210
Preface
Agents in multiagent systems are concurrent autonomous entities that need to coordinate and to cooperate so as to perform their tasks (buying items on the Internet or retrieving information, for instance). These coordination and cooperation tasks might be achieved through communication. Communication (also called ‘interaction’ by some authors) represents one of the main elements in multiagent systems. Without communication, agents will not be able to exchange information or coordinate with each other. Research on communication has been an established field for at least 20 years and moved from early work on protocols to direct agent communication, to communication that encompasses some human conversation patterns. Between these two points, several areas are considered in agent communication: agent communication languages, coordination, argumentation, negotiation and dialogue games, to name a few. The first idea when editing this book was to bring together several papers on different areas of agent communication, thus offering
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