Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
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Software agents
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Agent Communication II
Adaptive Retrieval of Semi-structured Data
AH '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
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CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Regulated multi-party communications and context awareness through the environment
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Representing conversations for scalable overhearing
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E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
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Intelligent information agents
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TRAMMAS: A tracing model for multiagent systems
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An operational model for mutual awareness
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T-compound interaction and overhearing agents
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Organising software in active environments
CLIMA'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Introducing participative personal assistant teams in negotiation support systems
PRIMA'04 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim international conference on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Overhearing and direct interactions: point of view of an active environment
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
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Multi-agent systems can benefit from the possibility of broadcasting messages to a wide audience. The audience may include overhearing agents which, unknown to senders, observe conversations and, among other things, pro-actively send suggestions. Current mainstream agent communication languages however lack adequate support for broadcasting. This paper defines the requirements for a form of broadcast that we call channeled multicast, whose distinguishing features include the ability to distinguish streams of messages by their theme, and to address agents by their characteristics. We present an implementation based on multicast IP, called LoudVoice. We show how channeled multicast could be used in alternative to matchmaking, and present in some detail a broadcast-based version of the English Auction Interaction Protocol. Finally, we discuss how we use the ability to overhear conversations in order to build innovative applications and we present a case study which is a testbed for various types of agents and multi-agent systems.