Issues in Agent Communication (Paperback)

ACL Semantics and Practice.- Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction.- Semantic, Normative and Practical Aspects of Agent Communication.- A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages.- Some Legal Aspects of Inter-agent Communication: From the Sincerity Condition to 'Ethical' Agents.- Semantics of Communicating Agents Based on Deduction and Abduction.- Operational Semantics for Agent Communication Languages.- An Approach to Using XML and a Rule-Based Content Language with an Agent Communication Language.- Conversation Policy Description.- What Is a Conversation Policy?.- The Role of Conversation Policy in Carrying Out Agent Conversations.- On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions.- Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Systems: A Development Method and Reference Architecture.- Conversation Speci cation.- Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling.- A Schema-Based Approach to Specifying Conversation Policies.- Constructing Robust Conversation Policies in Dynamic Agent Communities.- Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction.- ACL as a Joint Project between Participants: A Preliminary Report.- Conversation Protocols: Modeling and Implementing Conversations in Agent-Based Systems.- Conversations and Tasks.- Dialogue in Team Formation.- Uncertain Knowledge Representation and Communicative Behavior in Coordinated Defense.- On Abstract Models and Conversation Policies.- Investigating Interactions between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components.- An Executable Model of the Interaction between Verbal and Non-verbal Communication.