Agent communication languages: the current landscape

Labrou, Yannis; Finin, Tim; Peng, Yun

doi:10.1109/5254.757631

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“…We assume, as in recent work in agent communications languages (Labrou et al 1999), that the language syntax comprises two layers: an inner layer in which the topics of conversation are represented formally, and an outer, or wrapper, layer comprising locutions which express the illocutionary force of the inner content. In our presentation of the axiomatic semantics we assume classical propositional logic as the formal representation of the inner layer, but this restriction is for simplicity of presentation only.…”

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Computational Representation of Practical Argument

2006

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ABSTRACT. In this paper we consider persuasion in the context of practical reasoning, and discuss the problems associated with construing reasoning about actions in a manner similar to reasoning about beliefs. We propose a perspective on practical reasoning as presumptive justification of a course of action, along with critical questions of this justification, building on the account of Walton. From this perspective, we articulate an interaction protocol, which we call PARMA, for dialogues over proposed actions based on this theory. We outline an axiomatic semantics for the PARMA Protocol, and discuss two implementations which use this protocol to mediate a discussion between humans. We then show how our proposal can be made computational within the framework of agents based on the Belief-Desire-Intention model, and illustrate this proposal with an example debate within a multi agent system.

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Computational Representation of Practical Argument

2006

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“…(a) to extend the ACL speech act model [19,17] in order to take into account some useful notions suggested by human interaction, and (b) to make agent communication take place in the presence of a context, prescribing relations among, and actions upon, selected characteristics of speech acts.…”

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“…In the design and development of multi-agent systems, communication and coordination among agents represent key issues [23,8,7,3,24]. As a consequence, agent communication languages (ACLs for short) have been the subject of intense research and debate in recent years [25,19,15,18,17,2]. ACLs specify a common syntax and semantics for messages exchanged, in order to allow a full comprehension of messages uttered by agents in terms of sender intentions/desires, information exchanged, symbols used, etc.…”

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Enforcing agent communication laws by means of a reflective framework

Stefano

Santoro

Pappalardo

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Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Agent Coordination Contexts (ACCs) have been proposed as virtual environments where agents live and interact. In this way, as in a human society, interactions may be subject to conventions and laws depending on their context. This is obtained by a suitable ACC that embeds the communication laws relevant to a specific application and checks whether they are fulfilled as interactions take place.Context modeling, while representing a communication aspect relevant for all the agents of an application, is a crosscutting concern with respect to the design of the activities of each agent. In this paper, we propose an approach allowing a separate design and implementation of, respectively, behaviour and the interaction aspects constituting the context. Once the latter have been formalised in a specification consisting of communication laws, a tool generates the necessary management and checking code from the specification. Moreover, we automate the way laws are enforced on agent communication by suitably re-directing any interaction between agents, so as to ensure it respects the constraints specified by the laws, and take the actions some laws may request, before it actually takes place. Re-direction is accomplished by means of computational reflection, which transparently changes the meaning of the communication primitives normally used by agents programmers.

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“…Another aspect of agent messaging is that these messages are typically written in an agent control language (ACL) 27 such as KQML or the FIPA ACL. These languages provide a structured means of exchanging information and knowledge among agents.…”

Section: Agent Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%