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....to allow parallel work, to take profit of modularity, to allow the system to be fault tolerant through redundancy, to catch and take profit from multiple viewpoint and knowledge expertise of multiple experts, and to be reusable. Many EDSS could be analyzed as Cooperative Information Systems [40] where agents are used to cope with the different sources of information and the different tools used for problemsolving (see Fig. 6) For EDSS to be able to co operate Fig. 6. Cooperation among agents. they must have an intelligent interface that can cope with all types of requests and ....

E.M. Verharen, F. Dignum and S. Bos, Implementation of a cooperative agent architecture based on the language-action perspective, in: Intelligent Agents IV, M.P. Singh, A. Rao and M. Wooldrige, eds, LNAI 1365, 1998, pp. 31--44.

....uses similar ideas to generate plans. In their framework, different possible courses of actions (Plans) are generated, based on the agent s intentions. These plans are then evaluated to determine which ones are consistent and optimal with respect to achieving these intentions. Verharen et al. [101] present a language action approach to agent decision making, which has some similarities to our effort. However, they do not develop any formal semantics for their work, and their language for agent programs uses a linguistic rather than a logical approach. Schoppers and Shapiro [86] describe ....

E. Verharen, F. Dignum, and S. Bos. Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture Based on the Language-Action Perspective. In Wooldridge and Jennings [107], pages 26--39.

....by clearly identifying the problems encountered when modeling the reviewing process of a conference. Then we present the framework which is based on Petri nets [25, 26] and inspired by concepts originating from object orientation [8, 27] agent orientation [18] and the language action perspective [14, 34 36]. In Section 4, we model the reviewing process using our framework. Finally, we compare the framework with existing approaches and conclude with our plans for future research. 2 Motivating Example: Organizing a Conference The process of selecting papers for a conference presents features that ....

....smaller interacting proclets, i.e. there is a shift from control to communication. The framework is based on a solid process modeling technique (Petri nets [25, 26] extended with 6 concepts originating from object orientation [8, 27] agent orientation [18] and the language action perspective [14, 34 36]. In the remainder of this section we present the four main components of our framework: proclets, channels, naming service, and actors. 3.1 Proclets A proclet class describes the life cycle of proclet instances. A proclet class can be compared to an ordinary workflow process definition or ....

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E.M. Verharen, F. Dignum, and S. Bos. Implementation of a cooperative agent architecture based on the language-action perspective. In Intelligent Agents, volume 1365 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 31--44. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998.

....are designed and enforced. And in case of conflicts the solution is given there. Agents have to communicate with the Institution and reason about the information it contains. This interaction among Carrel and the agents is based on Fig. 2. The Scenarios in Carrel a Language Action Perspective [12], 11] As the abilities of the agents to communicate and negotiate take an important role in our approach, we will devote the rest of this section to explain how these take place in every moment inside the Institution. The most important scenario is the Exchange Room, where negotiation takes ....

E. M. Verharen, F. Dignum, and S. Bos. Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture Based on the Language-Action Perspective., pages 31--44. Volume 1365 of Singh et al. [11], 1 st edition, 1998.

....by identifying the problems encountered when modeling the reviewing process of a conference. Then we present the framework, which is based on Petri nets [22, 23] and inspired by concepts originating from object orientation [8, 24] agent orientation [18] and the language action perspective [14, 30 32]. In Section 4, we model the reviewing process for a conference using our framework. Finally, we compare the framework with existing approaches and conclude with our plans for future research. 2 Motivating Example: Organizing a Conference The process of selecting papers for a conference presents ....

....smaller interacting proclets, i.e. there is a shift from control to communication. The framework is based on a solid process modeling technique (Petri nets [22, 23] extended with concepts originating from object orientation [8, 24] agent orientation [18] and the language action perspective [14, 30 32]. In the remainder of this section we present the four main components of our framework: proclets, channels, naming service,andactors. 3.1 Proclets A proclet class describes the life cycle of proclet instances. A proclet class can be compared to an ordinary workflow process definition or ....

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E.M. Verharen, F. Dignum, and S. Bos. Implementation of a cooperative agent architecture based on the language-action perspective. In Intelligent Agents, volume 1365 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 31--44. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998.

....uses similar ideas to generate plans. In their framework, different possible courses of actions (Plans) are generated, based on the agent s intentions. These plans are then evaluated to determine which ones are consistent and optimal with respect to achieving these intentions. Verharen et al. [101] present a language action approach to agent decision making, which has some similarities to our effort. However, they do not develop any formal semantics for their work, and their language for agent programs uses a linguistic rather than a logical approach. Schoppers and Shapiro [86] describe ....

E. Verharen, F. Dignum, and S. Bos. Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture Based on the Language-Action Perspective. In Wooldridge and Jennings [107], pages 26--39.

....uses similar ideas to generate plans. In their framework, different possible courses of actions (Plans) are generated, based on the agent s intentions. These plans are then evaluated to determine which ones are consistent and optimal with respect to achieving these intentions. Verharen et al. [105] present a language action approach to agent decision making, which has some sim IFIG RR 9802 95 ilarities to our effort. However, they do not develop any formal semantics for their work, and their language for agent programs uses a linguistic rather than a logical approach. Schoppers and ....

E. Verharen, F. Dignum and S. Bos. Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture Based on the Language-Action Perspective, In: Proc. 1997 Intl Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Providence, RI, pp 26--39, 1997.

....get awarded for performing tasks. This extends the protocol to deal with the why issue. Cooperative Information Agents. An alternative to the KQML approach to agent communication has been proposed by Frank Dignum et al. in the Cooperative Information Agent (CIA) framework for agent negotiation [25]. This work also relies on speech acts, but here speech acts are modelled as the explicit offering and accepting of obligations. This way, the work much resembles the service contract approach suggested in this paper. The CIA framework is based on a formal framework of obligations and ....

....In particular, this language specifies a set of formally well defined speech acts that can agents use in communication. The language CoLa is used as the programming language of Collaborative Information Agents, CIAs. The internal architecture and implementation of these are discussed in [25]. The formal part of this work is impressive. The work centers around a formal notion of commitments and authorizations; agents committing themselves to obligations, and agents authorizing other agents to impose obligations on them. Entitlements are not explicitly discussed, but should be possible ....

Egon Verharen, Frank Dignum, Sander Bros. Implementation of a Cooperative Agent Architecture based on the Language-Action Perspective. In proceedings of the fourht International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages ATAL'97 (1997).

....model. Our model also proposes different graphical notations instead of just textual templates. DESIRE [4] is a formal framework for multiagent modelling, that covers mainly our task, agent and expertise models. It could be suitable for specifying the design after the analysis phase. CoLa [29] is a specification language for task decomposition, transactions and contracts, which are specified in our methodology in the task and coordination models. Our graphical notation could be easily mapped onto this specification language. COOL [1] and AgentTalk [19] are an alternative to our ....

Egon Verharen, Frank Dignum, and Sander Bos. Implementation of a cooperative agent architecture based on the language-action perspective. (In this volume).

....which they pop a new goal every time Of course in many implemented systems some type of goal formation takes place. However, it is usually extremely simple through some rule that relates a perceived external condition with a new goal like in [11] or through a received request (or command) like in [8]. In other frameworks it is something that is done by the user at the start of the system. The agent only decides which goal is active at a certain moment based on the circumstances (see e.g. 10] We do not intend to disqualify this research, but rather advocate an extension of present research ....

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