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Conversations are an agent programming abstraction intended to represent models of interaction among agents and to support the execution of these models in multi-agent environments. In this paper we review a conversational coordination language we have designed and used in the past few years, to characterize its main assumptions, strengths and limitations. Based on this analysis we discuss a number of major new features and extensions for our next generation conversational coordination language.
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Barbuceanu, M., Lo, WK. (2000). Conversation Oriented Programming for Agent Interaction. In: Dignum, F., Greaves, M. (eds) Issues in Agent Communication. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1916. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722777_15
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