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DIAGAL: A Generic ACL for Open Systems

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World V (ESAW 2004)

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In this paper, we present the latest version of our dialogue games based agent communication language (DIAGAL) which allows the agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue. We show that DIAGAL is complete according to the sequential creation, cancellation, update and discharge of social commitments. We also extend and refine notions of success and satisfaction previously associated with speech-acts to this new dialogical setting. Finally, we explain why DIAGAL is a good candidate for open and heterogeneous MAS development.

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  1. Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Philippe Pasquier, Mathieu Bergeron & Brahim Chaib-draa

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  1. IRIT – Paul Sabatier University, 118, Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Marie-Pierre Gleizes

  2. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, via Venezia 52, 47023, Cesena, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42100, Reggio Emilia, ITALY

    Franco Zambonelli

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Pasquier, P., Bergeron, M., Chaib-draa, B. (2005). DIAGAL: A Generic ACL for Open Systems. In: Gleizes, MP., Omicini, A., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World V. ESAW 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3451. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11423355_11

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