Issues in Agent Communication (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Frank Dignum (Editor); Mark Greaves (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9783540411444
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Compilers & interpreters; Computer Communications & Networking; Programming languages; Intelligent agents (Computer s; Software Design; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Programming - Software Development
First sentence: Agent technology is an exciting and important new way to create complex software systems.
Description: A first attempt to develop a standardized agent communication language (ACL) resulted in KQML, probably the most widely used such language. However, a lot of technical work remains to be done. Even worse, so far, there seems to be little consensus on the basics of agent communication and there is no clear understanding of the semantics of individual speech acts or even of the basic concepts that should be used to define the semantics. This book documents two workshops on communication in MAS held in 1999, one on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies (SICP) and the other in Agent Communication Languages and presents the current state of the art of research in the field. A detailed introductory overview by the volume editors highlights a number of issues that play an important role in agent communication.