Communicative acts and interaction protocols in a distributed information system

Authors:
Mariusz Nowostawski;Daniel Carter;Stephen Cranefield;Martin Purvis
Affiliations:
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Venue:
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Year:
2003

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Abstract

In FIPA-style multi-agent systems, agents coordinate their activities by sending messages representing particular communicative acts (or performatives). Agent communication languages must strike a balance between simplicity and expressiveness by defining a limited set of communicative act types that fit the communication needs of a wide set of problems. More complex requirements for particular problems must then be handled by defining domain-specific predicates and actions within ontologies. This paper examines the communication needs of a multi-agent distributed information retrieval system and discusses how well these are met by the FIPA ACL.