Paper Info
Title
Designing Agent Communication Languages for Multi-agent Systems
Abstract
To provide inter-operability between heterogeneous agents in open systems, a commonly understood agent communication language (ACL) is used. To ensure that it is commonly understood, a formal semantics for the ACL is required. In this paper, we explore ideas from the semantics of natual language dialogues for defining the meaning of ACL messages. Using a general semantic framework for characterising the semantics of a class of ACLs in terms of protocols, we introduce a method for designing an ACL for a particulaj application. We illustrate this idea with respect to a small ACL called sACL. The advajitages of this approach are that the specification is considerably less complex and more general, the potentieil for interoperability is improved, and verification of compliance to the semantics is easier.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1007/3-540-48437-X_9
MAAMAW
Keywords
Field
DocType
open system,natual language dialogue,small acl,particulaj application,general semantic framework,agent communication language,heterogeneous agent,acl message,designing agent communication languages,multi-agent systems,formal semantics,multi agent system
Semantic framework,Programming language,Interoperability,Computer science,Computational semantics,Multi-agent system,Artificial intelligence,Open system (systems theory),Semantics,Belief revision,Distributed computing,Semantics of logic
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-66281-2
19
1.47
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy Pitt119724.59
Abe Mamdani223124.97