A speech-act-based negotiation protocol: design, implementation, and test use
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Reliable Agent Communication - A Pragmatic Perspective
PRIMA '99 Proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Approaches to Intelligent Agents
An Organizational Metamodel for the Design of Catalogues of Communicative Actions
Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Communicative acts-based ACLs specify domain-independent information about communication and relegate domain-dependent information to an unspecified content language. This is reasonable, but the ACLs cover only a small fraction of the domain-independent information possible. As a key element of modern ACLs, the set of communicative acts needs to be as complete as possible to allow agents to communicate the widest range of information with agreed-upon semantics. This paper describes a new approach to broaden the semantic coverage of agent communicative acts. It provides agents with the ability to express more of the semantics of human languages and yields a more powerful ACL. We first describe the main meaning categories and semantics for an ACL, which we derive from prior work on speech-act classifications. Next, we prove the resultant semantic coverage. Finally, we present some example applications, which demonstrate that the approach can combine the benefits of the FIPA ACL with Ballmer and Brennenstuhl’s speech act classification, resulting in a more expressive and efficient ACL.