A Protocol-Based Semantics for an Agent Communication Language
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Distributed AI. Pages 486-490.
Abstract
There are fundamental limitations on using mental attitudes to formalise the semantics of an Agent Communication Language (ACL). Instead, we define a general semantic framework for an ACL in terms of protocols. We then argue that the proper role of mental attitudes is to link what an agent 'thinks' about the co ntent of a message to what it 'does' in response to re ce iving that message. We formalise this connection through normative and informative specifications and de monstrate its use in communication between two BDI-style agents.
@inproceedings{ijcai1999p70,
title = {A Protocol-Based Semantics for an Agent Communication Language},
author = {Pitt, Jeremy and Mamdani, E. H.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-99}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Thomas Dean},
pages = {486--490},
year = {1999},
note = {Distributed AI},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/70},
}
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