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Infomaster: an information integration system
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Semantics for an Agent Communication Language
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Verifiable Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
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Semantics for an agent communication language
Semantics for an agent communication language
Toward a semantics for an agent communications language based on speech0-acts
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IMPACT: A System for Building Agent Applications
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A lightweight capability communication mechanism
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Sensible agents: an implemented multi-agent system and testbed
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
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Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
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Implementing agent communication languages directly from UML specifications
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Mutli-agents systems and applications
Communications Systems Driven by Software Agent Technology
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Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Interactive virtual environments and distance education
A Verification Framework for Agent Communication
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project
Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
A flexible, agent-based ICT architecture for virtual enterprises
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MultiAgent Systems for Coalition Support
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Steps towards C+C: A Language for Interactions
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Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation
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Standardizing Agent Communication
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Reliable Agent Communication - A Pragmatic Perspective
PRIMA '99 Proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Approaches to Intelligent Agents
Semantics of Agent Communication: An Introduction
Selected papers from the UKMAS Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
Using Agent Control and Communication in a Distributed Workflow Information System
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Building an Information and Knowledge Fusion System
Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: engineering of intelligent systems
Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices
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KSACI: A Handheld Device Infrastructure for Agents Communication
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A Multi-agent Reflective Architecture for User Assistance and Its Application to E-commerce
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
A systemic approach of electronic commerce
Critical reflections on information systems
Modifying agent systems for an open, dynamic agent environment
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Service Agents and Virtual Enterprises: A Survey
IEEE Internet Computing
BT Technology Journal
Agent-based support within an interactive evolutionary design system
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Enforcing agent communication laws by means of a reflective framework
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Commitment-based and dialogue-game-based protocols: new trends in agent communication languages
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Argument-based applications to knowledge engineering
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Intelligent Agents on the Web: A Review
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A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Stepwise development of security protocols: a speech act-oriented approach
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Formal methods in security engineering
Argumentation-based negotiation
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QoS multi-agent applied for Grid Service management
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The Neem Platform: An Evolvable Framework for Perceptual Collaborative Applications
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Normative Communication Models for Agent
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DIAGAL: An Agent Communication Language Based on Dialogue Games and Sustained by Social Commitments
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Human behavior models for agents in simulators and games: part I: enabling science with PMFserv
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Communication mechanisms in ecological network-based grid middleware for service emergence
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Deploying personalized mobile services in an agent-based environment
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Supporting Action-at-a-distance in Situated Cellular Agents
Fundamenta Informaticae
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Realizing Teamwork in the Field: An Agent-Based Approach
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Knowledge modeling -- State of the art
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Knowledge and information distribution leveraged by intelligent agents
Knowledge and Information Systems
Multi-agent framework in visual sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Specifying protocols for multi-agent systems interaction
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Performance comparison of a network layer ACP and an application layer ACP via simulations
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Analysis and design of a web-agent-based distributed learning environment
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International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Is an OWL ontology adequate for foreign software agents communication?
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
An Operational Model for the FIPA-ACL Semantics
Agent Communication II
Learning communicative actions of conflicting human agents
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Using interaction models to detect and resolve inconsistencies in evolving service compositions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
An agent-based approach to component management
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
On the formal semantics of speech-act based communication in an agent-oriented programming language
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Advanced Engineering Informatics
A multi-agent framework for distributed theorem proving
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A flexible model for real-time crowd simulation
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Action recognition and prediction for driver assistance systems using dynamic belief networks
NODe'02 Proceedings of the NODe 2002 agent-related conference on Agent technologies, infrastructures, tools, and applications for E-services
Autonomous agents to support interoperability and physical integration in pervasive environments
AWIC'03 Proceedings of the 1st international Atlantic web intelligence conference on Advances in web intelligence
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Enumerating the preconditions of agent message types
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Bridging semantic gap in distant communication: ontology-based approach
KES-AMSTA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
A geometric agent following route instructions
Spatial cognition III
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Autonomous dynamic reconfiguration in multi-agent systems: improving the quality and efficiency of collaborative problem solving
European research and development of intelligent information agents: the agentlink perspective
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Providing advanced remote medical treatment services through pervasive environments
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Web-based multi-agent system architecture in a dynamic environment
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
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A dialogue game protocol for multi-agent argument over proposals for action
ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
A spatially dependent communication model for ubiquitous systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
SAPA: software agents for prevention and auditing of security faults in networked systems
ICOIN'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Information Networking: convergence in broadband and mobile networking
Intensional programming for agent communication
DALT'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
A flexible communication scheme to support grid service emergence
ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
JADL – an agent description language for smart agents
DALT'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
Programming deliberative agents for mobile services: the 3APL-M platform
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Genie of the net, an agent platform for managing services on behalf of the user
Computer Communications
Cognitive Systems Research
Is an OWL ontology adequate for foreign software agents communication?
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
Supporting Action-at-a-distance in Situated Cellular Agents
Fundamenta Informaticae
Distributed multi-agent communication system based on dynamic ontology mapping
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Using Agent Technology for Company Knowledge Management
Information Resources Management Journal
Multi-domain public key infrastructure for information security with use of a multi-agent system
ACIIDS'13 Proceedings of the 5th Asian conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Volume Part I
Interaction relationships of caches in agent-based HD video surveillance: Discovery and utilization
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A survey of flexible agent interaction approaches
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Evaluating pilot situation awareness using multi-agent systems
Intelligent Decision Technologies
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Despite the substantial number of multi-agent systems that use an Agent Communication Language (ACL), the dust has not settled yet over the landscape of ACLs. The semantic specification issues have monopolized the debate at the expense of other important pragmatic issues that must be adequately resolved in the immediate future if ACLs are going to support the development of robust agent systems. After introducing some of the basic concepts relating to Agent Communication Languages, we cover KQML and FIPA ACL, the two existing fully-specified ACLS. We give a brief introduction to their semantics and the issues relating to semantic descriptions of ACLs. We then shift our focus beyond the semantics and point to problems and limitations shared by both ACLs. Questions such as the nature of conformance of an agent system with an ACL specification and issues such as naming, registration, authentication, basic facilitation services, etc., may or may not be (technically speaking) part of an ACL specification, but we feel that the answers and solutions to such problems can "make or break" an ACL. We finally discuss the future of ACL standardization efforts and identify the issues that are likely to emerge as we gain experience in building and deploying agent-based systems.