Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Artificial intelligence: a new synthesis
Artificial intelligence: a new synthesis
Defining interaction protocols using a commitment-based agent communication language
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
DIAGAL: An Agent Communication Language Based on Dialogue Games and Sustained by Social Commitments
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent communication and artificial institutions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Electronic institutions for B2B: dynamic normative environments
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Formal ontologies for communicating agents
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
Commitment Monitoring in a Multiagent System
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Answer set programming for representing and reasoning about virtual institutions
CLIMA VII'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational logic in multi-agent systems
Embedding landmarks and scenes in a computational model of institutions
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Models of Collaboration as the Foundation for Collaboration Technologies
Journal of Management Information Systems
Towards an institutional environment using norms for contract performance
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Towards reliable large-scale multi-agent systems
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Agent communication and institutional reality
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Formulating agent communication semantics and pragmatics as behavioral expectations
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction protocols
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Speech acts with institutional effects in agent societies
DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Specifying and analysing agent-based social institutions using answer set programming
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Formal ontologies for communicating agents
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
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All major proposals in the field of Agent Communication Languages deal with agent communication in terms of speech acts. This choice is important not only because it allows one to rely on a powerful and deep theory of communication, namely Speech Act Theory, but also because AI has developed computationally effective ways of dealing with actions. However, the AI literature does not seem to distinguish between "physical" or "natural" actions and speech acts in a principled way. This attitude often results in a fairly confused and inadequate account of what it means that an agent performs a speech act -- a situation that is likely to hinder further developments in the field of Agent Communication Languages. In this paper we analyze the concept of speech act, and point out the main differences between speech acts, conceived as a special category of "institutional" actions, and natural actions. On the basis of our analysis, we conclude that speech acts should be modelled in terms of the specific social effects brought about by their performance.