2005
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32259-7_11
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“Exhibitionists” and “Voyeurs” Do It Better: A Shared Environment for Flexible Coordination with Tacit Messages

Abstract: Abstract. Coordination between multiple autonomous agents is a major issue for open multi-agent systems. This paper proposes the notion of Behavioural Implicit Communication (BIC) originally devised in human and animal societies as a new and critical coordination mechanism also for artificial agents. BIC is a parasitical form of communication that exploits both some environmental properties and the agents' capacity to interpret their actions. In this paper we abstract from the agents' architecture to focus on … Show more

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“…• Communication structure refers to infrastructure for message transfer [7,73], infrastructure for stigmergy [11,42], or support for implicit communication [58,74].…”
Section: Responsibilities Of the Environmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…• Communication structure refers to infrastructure for message transfer [7,73], infrastructure for stigmergy [11,42], or support for implicit communication [58,74].…”
Section: Responsibilities Of the Environmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Agent communication languages focus on Speech Acts and they are not always adequate to describe other modes of interactions. A computational environment has allowed to enrich possible interaction types among software agents, and the application of recent work to ECA based on the environment is expected to contribute significantly to the field (Tummolini et al, 2004;.…”
Section: Application Opportunitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The study of Stigmergy has influenced a number of different research fields. In CAS, Stigmergy mostly serves as a rich source of simple yet effective coordination metaphors and mechanisms [7], [10], [13].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, according to C. Castelfranchi, the general definition of Stigmergy, "indirect communication through the environment", is rather weak and unprincipled [12]. He regards Stigmergy as a subcategory of BIC (Behavior Implicit Communication) [12], and defines it as "the process of indirect communication of behavioral messages with implicit signals" [13]. A. Omicini and his colleagues take environment as a key concept to grasp the meaning of Stigmergy, and endeavor to implement it as artifacts [5]- [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%