The role of emotion in believable agents
Communications of the ACM
The Social Dimension of Interactions in Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the Workshops on Commonsense Reasoning, Intelligent Agents, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Formalisms, Methodologies, and Applications
Issues in Agent Communication: An Introduction
Issues in Agent Communication
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
Issues in Agent Communication
Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Dialogue Frames in Agent Communication
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Specifying and resolving preferences among agent interaction patterns
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Roles of Roles in Agent Communication Languages
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
ACL Semantics Between Social Commitments and Mental Attitudes
Agent Communication II
Integrating Social Commitment-Based Communication in Cognitive Agent Modeling
Agent Communication II
Introducing Preferences into Commitment Protocols
Agent Communication II
Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
Coherence-driven argumentation to norm consensus
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Coherence as an Inclusive Notion of Rationality
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Coherence as an Inclusive Notion of Rationality
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
A coherence based framework for institutional agents
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Towards a model of social coherence in multi-agent organizations
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Conversational semantics with social commitments
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Modelling flexible social commitments and their enforcement
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach
Cognitive Systems Research
Applied Ontology - Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
Agent Interaction via Message-Based Belief Communication
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
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Different approaches have investigated the syntax and semantic of agent communication. However, all these approaches (including : agent communication languages, conversation policies and dialogue games) have not indicated how agents should dynamically use communications. In fact, most of these approaches have mainly focused on "structure" of dialogues even though developers are more interested in agents' capabilities of having "useful" conversations in respect to their goals rather than in their abilities to structure dialogues. This leads us to propose a theory of use of conversations between agents. This pragmatic theory extends and adapts the cognitive dissonance theory (a major theory of social psychology) to multi-agent systems. In this paper, we show how this theory allows us to provide generic conceptual tools for the automation of both agent communicational behavior and attitude change processes. The cognitive coherence that we propose is formulated in terms of constraints and elements of cognition and allows us to define cognitive incoherences and dialogue utility measures. We show how these measures could be used to solve common problems and answer some critical questions concerning agent communication frameworks use. Finally, the theory is illustrated with an example of dialogue games automatic use.