A calculus of mobile processes, II
Information and Computation
Comparing syntactic and semantic action refinement
Information and Computation - special issue: symposium on theoretical aspects of computer software TACS '94
Semantics and conversations for an agent communication language
Readings in agents
Communication and Concurrency
Model checking multi-agent systems with MABLE
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Games That Agents Play: A Formal Framework for Dialogues between Autonomous Agents
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Semantic Issues in the Verification of Agent Communication Languages
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction
Issues in Agent Communication
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
Issues in Agent Communication
Modeling Dialogues Using Argumentation
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Semantics for an agent communication language
Semantics for an agent communication language
Commitment-based and dialogue-game-based protocols: new trends in agent communication languages
The Knowledge Engineering Review
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Formal description and verification of the interaction protocols between agents is a very valuable reserch in development of MAS. In the paper we have defined a calculus for description interaction protocols of MAS based on dialogue. The calculus is founded on process algebra and is designed to be independent of any particular model of rational agency. This makes the verification applicable to heterogeneous agent systems. With the state of session environment and formal semantics of calculus, we can verify some properties of session protocols, e.g. termination, deadlock. Our approach does not suffer from the semantic verification problem because the states of the session dialogue are defined in the protocol itself, and it is straightforward to verify that an agent is or not acting in accordance with the protocol and does not suffer from state-space explosion.