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-- Call for Papers --
AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004)
Mon 19th July 2004, Columbia University, NY, USA
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/rogier/AC2004/
Postproceedings deadline: October 31, 2004
News
- Deadline of submissions for the postproceedings
is October 31, 2004 . They will be published
as a volume in the Springer-Verlag
LNAI series .
Overview
The domain of agent interaction has been considered first by the
distributed AI and later the multi-agent community for at least 15
years. During the last 7 years some standard agent communication languages
have been proposed. In practice most applications adhere to the FIPA ACL
standard. However, the discussion about the interpretation and semantics of the
standard messages has not yet abated. The use of mental attitudes as pre- and
postconditions of the communicative acts makes it hard to verify them. On the other hand
a pure syntactic approach would not do justice to the intentional nature of agent communication.
In the last few years some work based on commitments seems to offer an interesting
middle road. It remains to be seen what are the properties of these
commitments and how they interact with the other attitudes of the agent.
Although the FIPA ACL standard defines a few communication protocols as well, very little
work has been done on practically implementing them in a standard way. Nor are the
semantics of these protocols unambiguously clear.
A new area that opened up last year is that of multi-party dialogues. That is, what
are the issues to be dealt with when more than two agents take part in a conversation?
Especially interesting will be the case when some of these agents are humans. This opens
up the integration of pure agent communication with agent to human conversations.
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 third international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS 2004.
Topics
We solicit papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Agent communication languages
- Semantics and pragmatics of ACL
- Conversational agents
- Dialogue games
- Ontologies
- Human-agent communication
- Natural language processing application to communication
- Conversation policies
- Specification and implementation of agent conversation policies
- Validation of conversation policies
- FIPA's work on semantics and ACL
- Tools for communication
- Coordination and cooperation
- Negotiation
- Interoperability
- Multi-party conversations
- Commitments in communication
- Integration of protocols within agents
- Reuse in communication
- Practical aspects of the communication (medium, performance, fault-tolerance)
- Grounding ACL theory in computer science
- Speech Acts vs. method invocation
Program
9:00 - 10:30 session 1: Social commitments
- Agent communication and institutional reality
Nicoletta Fornara, Fransesco Vigano and Marco Colombetti
- Conversational semantics with social commitments
Roberto Flores, Philippe Pasquier and Brahim Chaib-draa
- A semantic approach for designing commitment protocols
Ashok Mallya and Munindar Singh
10:30 - 11:00 coffee and tea break
11:00 - 12:00 session 2a: Multi-party dialogues
- A scalable petri net representation of interaction protocols for overhearing
Gery Gutnik and Gal Kaminka
- First steps towards multi-party communication
Marc-Philippe Huget and Yves Demazeau
12:00 - 13:00 session 2b: Content languages
- Optimal communication vocabularies and heterogeneous ontologies
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dignum, Rogier van Eijk and John-Jules Meyer
- Dealing with time in content language expressions
Mario Verdicchio and Marco Colombetti
13:00 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 15:30 session 3: Dialogues and conversations
- Realizing agent dialogues with distributed protocols
Jarred McGinnis and David Robertson
- Modeling conversation policies using permissions and obligations
Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin
- Coherence constraints for agent interaction
Joris Hulstijn, Mehdi Dastani and Frank Dignum
15:30 - 16:00 coffee and break
16:00 - 18:00 session 4: Speech acts
- Dialogization and implicit information in an agent communication model
Karim Bouzouba, Jamal Bentahar and Bernard Moulin
- Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction protocols
Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons
- A suite of performatives based upon joint intention theory
Marcus Huber, Sanjeev Kumar and David McGee
- A model of rational agency for communicating agents
Shakil Khan and Yves Lesperance
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.
All submissions should be sent either in PostScript format or in PDF format by email to Rogier van Eijk on rogier@cs.uu.nl
At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.
Important Dates
| Submission Deadline: |
Thursday 1 April 2004
(no extensions) |
| Notification of Acceptance: |
Saturday 1 May 2004 |
| Workshop: |
Mon 19 or Tue 20, July 2004 |
Program Committee
- L. Amgoud (IRIT,France)
- B. Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
- P. Cohen (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
- M. Colombetti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- M. Dastani (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni (University of Paris 6, France)
- T. Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
- F. Guerin (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- M. d'Inverno (Westminster University, UK)
- A. Jones (King's College, London, UK)
- Y. Labrou (Fujitsu Laboratories, USA)
- N. Maudet (University of Paris 9, France)
- P. McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- S. Parsons (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA)
- S. Paurobally (University of Southampton, UK)
- N. Roos (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- M. Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
- G. Weiss (Technical University Munich, Germany)
- M. Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
External reviewers
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Jan Broersen
- Roberto Flores
- Jamal Bentahar
- Philippe Pasquier
- Michael Rovatsos
- Matthias Nickles
Publication
The proceedings of AC2004 will be printed and distributed at the workshop.
The postproceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer-Verlag
LNAI series .
Papers of the 2002 and 2003 AAMAS workshops on Agent Communication Languages and Conversation
Policies have been published in the books:
Communication in multiagent systems (volume 2650 of LNAI, Springer-Verlag) and
Advances in Agent Communication (volume 2922 of LNAI, Springer-Verlag).
Publication of a book on agent communication based on articles from this years workshop is planned .
Organising Committee
Co-Chairs:
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