Agent Communication II

Section I: Semantics of Agent Communication.- An Operational Model for the FIPA-ACL Semantics.- Temporal Logics for Representing Agent Communication Protocols.- ACL Semantics Between Social Commitments and Mental Attitudes.- On the Semantics of Conditional Commitment.- Section II: Commitments in Agent Communication.- A Commitment-Based Communicative Act Library.- Integrating Social Commitment-Based Communication in Cognitive Agent Modeling.- Flexible Conversations Using Social Commitments and a Performatives Hierarchy.- Using Social Commitments to Control the Agents’ Freedom of Speech.- Practical Issues in Detecting Broken Social Commitments.- Introducing Preferences into Commitment Protocols.- Section III: Protocols and Strategies.- On the Study of Negotiation Strategies.- Strategies for Ontology Negotiation: Finding the Right Level of Generality.- Combining Normal Communication with Ontology Alignment.- Towards Design Tools for Protocol Development.- Adaptiveness in Agent Communication: Application and Adaptation of Conversation Patterns.- Can I Please Drop It? Dialogues About Belief Contraction.- Commitment-Based Policies in Persuasion Dialogues with Defeasible Beliefs.- Section IV: Reliability and Overhearing.- Reliable Group Communication and Institutional Action in a Multi-agent Trading Scenario.- A Fault Tolerant Agent Communication Language for Supporting Web Agent Interaction.- Experiments in Selective Overhearing of Hierarchical Organizations.