Toward a Semantics for an Agent Communications Language Based on Speech-Acts

Toward a Semantics for an Agent Communications Language Based on Speech-Acts (1995)

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TITLE	Toward a Semantics for an Agent Communications Language Based on Speech-Acts	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Ira A. Smith	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Center for Human-Computer Communication; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Oregon Graduate Institute	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Philip R. Cohen	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Center for Human-Computer Communication; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Oregon Graduate Institute	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Implementations of systems based on distributed agent architectures require an agent communications language that has a clearly de#ned semantics. Without one, neither agents nor developers can be sure what another agent's commitment to perform a task means #to name just one speech act#. This paper demonstrates that a semantics for an agent communications language can be founded on the premise that interagent communications constitute a task-oriented dialogue in which agents are building, maintaining, and disbanding teams through their performance of communicative acts. This view requires that de#nitions of basic communicative acts, such as requesting, be recast in terms of the formation of a jointintention --- a mental state that has been suggested underlies team behavior. Thus, a model of teamwork based on jointintentions is shown to provide the coherence for interagent dialogue, and provides motivation for its step-by-step progression in virtue of the performance of commun...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1995	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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