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Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles

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Communication in Multiagent Systems

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Agent communication languages have been used for years in proprietary multiagent systems. Yet agents from different vendors—or even different research projects—cannot communicate with each other. The author looks at the underlying reasons and proposes a conceptual shift from individual agent representations to social interaction.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7535, USA

    Munindar P. Singh

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    Marc-Philippe Huget

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Singh, M.P. (2003). Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles. In: Huget, MP. (eds) Communication in Multiagent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2650. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44972-0_2

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