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A Formal Semantics for ProxyCommunicative Acts

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Mediation services are becoming increasingly important in multiagent systems. An agent that can act on behalf of another agent is one important example of mediation functionality commonly required. Within this paper, we define and analyze PROXY and PROXY-WEAK communicative acts that formally specify semantics for interacting with middle agents that provide proxy services. These two communicative acts are shown to have a distinctly different impact upon the mental state of the agents involved and impose significantly different levels of commitment upon the middle agents.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, OR, 97006, USA

    Marcus J. Huber, Sanjeev Kumar & Philip R. Cohen

  2. Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352

    David R. McGee

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

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Huber, M.J., Kumar, S., Cohen, P.R., McGee, D.R. (2002). A Formal Semantics for ProxyCommunicative Acts. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_16

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