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Normative Pragmatics for Agent Communication Languages

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Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2005)

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The ability to communicate is one of the crucial properties of agents. In this paper a normative approach to the pragmatics of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) is proposed. In an open environment, like the Internet, in which agents are designed in many different ways, it is important to clearly establish the meaning of a standard language for artificial agents. Traditionally, the pragmatics of ACLs take the form of interaction protocols, which only specify the order in which messages occur without taking into account the content of the message, or the role of the agents. We present a unified ACL which includes the semantics and pragmatics of ACLs, focusing on a pragmatic level based on the social and normative notion of right. The framework is developed extending CTL with modal and deontic operators, and the pragmatics are expressed by means of a prolog-like declarative language.

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  1. Dept. of Computing, City University, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    Rodrigo Agerri & Eduardo Alonso

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  1. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and INT, France

    Jacky Akoka

  2. Information Systems Department, Brigham Young Univeristy, 84602, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.

    Stephen W. Liddle

  3. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  4. University College, Dublin, Ireland

    Michela Bertolotto

  5. CEDRIC-CNAM and ESSEC,  

    Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90158, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  7. ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp

  8. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

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Agerri, R., Alonso, E. (2005). Normative Pragmatics for Agent Communication Languages. In: Akoka, J., et al. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568346_19

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