Constitutive rules for agent communication languages

Authors:
Jeremy Pitt
Affiliations:
Intelligent & Interactive Systems Group, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, England
Venue:
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We follow Searle's contention that speaking a (natural) language is to engage in a rule-governed form of behaviour, and that those rules are conventional (institutional) rather than natural or physical. We show how this analysis can also be used to specify rules of interaction for systems of electronic agents communicating with an artificial language. We conclude that using constitutive rules to define the semantics of an agent communication language not only distinguishes agent communication from method invocation, but also offers significant computational advantages over using intentional states.