Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Communications of the ACM
Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Flexible protocol specification and execution: applying event calculus planning using commitments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Games That Agents Play: A Formal Framework for Dialogues between Autonomous Agents
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Semantic Issues in the Verification of Agent Communication Languages
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Formal Framework for E-Barter Based on Microeconomic Theory and Process Algebras
IICS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Innovative Internet Computing Systems
Law-Governed Linda as a Coordination Model
ECOOP '94 Selected papers from the ECOOP'94 Workshop on Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution, Object-Based Models and Languages for Concurrent Systems
Towards Layered Dialogical Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A Software Infrastructure for Negotiation within Inter-organisational Alliances
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
A Dialogue Game Protocol for Agent Purchase Negotiations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards a test‐bed for trading agents in electronic auction markets
AI Communications
Towards design tools for protocol development
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent communication and artificial institutions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Privacy and e-commerce: a consumer-centric perspective
Electronic Commerce Research
Design time analysis of multiagent protocols
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Enacting protocols by commitment concession
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Towards Design Tools for Protocol Development
Agent Communication II
Argumentation and Artifact for Dialogue Support
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Multiagent commitment alignment
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Formalizing communication protocols for multiagent systems
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Specifying and applying commitment-based business patterns
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Agent communication and institutional reality
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
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What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on speech act theory, in which e-commerce exchanges are promises of future commercial actions, whose real-world meanings are constructed jointly and incrementally. We then define a computational model for this theory, called Posit Spaces, along with the syntax and semantics for an agent interaction protocol, the Posit Spaces Protocol or PSP. This protocol enables participants in a multi-agent commercial interaction to propose, accept, modify and revoke joint commitments. Our work integrates three strands of prior research: the theory of Tuple Spaces in distributed computation; formal dialogue games from argumentation theory; and the study of commitments in multi-agent systems.