Workshop on Agent Communication

 
 

09:00 - 10:30	CONVERSATIONS  1. F. Lin, D. Norrie, R. Flores, R. Kremer, Incorporating Conversation Managers into Multi-agent Systems. 2. M. Nodine and A. Unruh. Industrial strength conversations. Discussion on conversation policies.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00	LOGICS AND SEMANTICS  3. M. Colombetti, A Commitment-Based Approach to Agent Speech Acts and Conversations. 4. J. Pitt, An Operational Semantics for Intentional Specifications of Agent Behaviour in Communication Protocols. 5. M. Wooldridge and S. Parsons, Logic for Negotiation. Discussion on semantics of agent communication.
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	EXPERIMENTAL  6. J.-P. Sansonnet and E. Valencia, An Experimental Framework for Behavior Extraction over Communication Flows in Multi-Agent Systems. 7. P. Gmytrasiewicz and D. Gopal, Towards Automating the Evolution of Linguistic Competence in Artificial Agents. Discussion.
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Panel discussion on the (future) topics in Agent Communication.