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AAMAS 2006 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2006)
May 9, 2006, Future University, Hakodate, Japan Submission deadline: February 1, 2006 Overview Agent interaction has been studied by researchers in the distributed AI and multi-agent communities for the past 15 years. These efforts have led to various proposals to standardize agent communication languages, from which FIPA ACL is the one standard most applications adhere to nowadays. Although FIPA ACL is widely used, the discussion about its message semantics has not yet abated. The main concern is that having the pre- and post-conditions of messages defined in terms of mental attributes makes their verification in open environments difficult. An alternative would be to have a purely syntactical approach, but this would not do justice to the intentional nature of agent communication. In addition to message semantics, the FIPA standard defines communication protocols indicating the sequencing of messages in conversations. The semantics of protocols is another promising area of research, since little work has been done to implement them in a standardized way, or to make their definition unambiguously clear. In the past few years, research based on commitments has promised advances in these questions. However, there is still no consensus on the properties of these commitments, or their correlation to any other attitudes that agents may have. In addition to semantics, new areas of research have opened in the past couple of years. This is the case of multi-party dialogues, which are concerned with conversations among multiple agents. Of particular interest is the case when some of these agents are humans. This opens the possibility that future communication standards may be directed to integrate pure-agent communication and agent-to-human conversation approaches. The workshop builds on:
The workshop will solicit papers looking at both theory and practice of agent communication. Submission of papers linking technical or theoretical work with applications of this research are strongly encouraged. The workshop will be co-located with the fifth international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2006 in Hakodate, Japan. Topics We welcome papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
9:00-10:15 Session 1
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee and tea break 11:00 - 12:40 Session 2
Submission Procedure Contributors may submit either full papers (no longer than 5000 words, not including figures) or a one-page position statement that outlines their interests, background, and discussion of an aspect of the workshop theme. Preferred formats are the LNCS format of Springer or the format of the AAMAS 2006 main conference. All submissions should be sent either in PostScript format or in PDF format by email to Marc-Philippe Huget on Marc-Philippe.Huget@univ-savoie.fr At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.
Important Dates
Program Committee
Publication The proceedings have been published as: LNCS 3859 Papers of the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 AAMAS workshops on Agent Communication have been published in the books:
Organising Committee Co-Chairs:
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