Towards ACL semantics based on commitments and penalties

Authors:
Leila Amgoud;Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr
Affiliations:
IRIT-CNRS 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France, amgoud, bannay@irit.fr;IRIT-CNRS 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France, amgoud, bannay@irit.fr
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The importance of defining a standard framework for agent communication languages (ACL) with a simple, clear, and a verifiable semantics has been widely recognized. This paper proposes a logic-based semantics which is social in nature. The basic idea is to associate with each speech act a meaning in terms of the commitment induced by that speech act, and the penalty to be paid in case that commitment is violated. A violation criterion based on the existence of arguments is then defined per speech act. Moreover, we show that the proposed semantics satisfies some key properties that ensure the approach is well-founded. The logical setting makes the semantics verifiable.