Agent Communication

Huget Marc-Philippe van Eijk Rogier M. Dignum Frank

ISBN 10: 3540250158 / ISBN 13: 9783540250159

Published by Springer, 2005

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pp. 280. Seller Inventory # 18292990

Bibliographic Details

Title: Agent Communication

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multiagent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous Workshops of which the proceedings have been published in earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is formed by the accepted submissions of the Workshop on Agent Communication held in c- junction with the AAMAS Conference in July 2004 in New York. The workshop received 26 submissions of which 14 were selected for publication in this v- ume. Besides the high-quality workshop papers we noticed that many papers on agent communication found their way to the main conference. We decided therefore to invite a number of authors to revise and extend their papers from this conference and to combine them with the workshop papers. We believe that the current collection comprises a very good and quite complete overview of the state of the art in this area of research and gives a good indication of the topics that are of major interest at the moment. The papers can roughly be divided over the following ?ve themes: – social commitments – multiparty communication – content languages – dialogues and conversations – speech acts Although these themes are of course not mutually exclusive they indicate some main directions of research. We therefore have arranged the papers in the book according to the topics indicated above.

Product Description:

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.