Ebook: Agent Communication II: International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers
Author: Vincent Louis Thierry Martinez (auth.) Frank P. M. Dignum Rogier M. van Eijk Roberto Flores (eds.)
- Genre: Technique // Electronics: Telecommunications
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3859 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Although everyone recognizes communication as a central concept in mul- agents, many no longer see agent communication as a research topic. Unf- tunately there seems to be a tendency to regard communication as a kind of information exchange that can easily be covered using the standard FIPA ACL. However, the papers in this volume show that research in agent communication is far from ?nished. If we want to develop the full potential of multi-agent s- tems, agent communication should also develop to a level beyond parameter or value passing as is done in OO approaches! In this book we present the latest collection of papers around the topic of agentcommunication.Thecollectioncomprisesofthebestpapersfromtheagent communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. Due to some unfortunate circumstances the proceedings of the 2005 workshop were delayed, but it gave us the opportunity to join the best papers of the 2006 edition to this volume. Together these papers give a very good overview of the state of the art in this areaofresearchandgiveagoodindicationofthetopicsthatareofmajorinterest at the moment.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the two International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, held in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2005, and in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as associated events of AAMAS 2005/2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected - they represent the best papers from the Agent Communication workshops of 2005 and 2006, enriched with a few revised agent communication papers from the AAMAS conference. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics of agent communication, commitments in agent communication, protocols and strategies, as well as reliability and overhearing.