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Constructing translations between individual vocabularies in multi-agent systems

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Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA 1998)

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In multi-agent systems, different agents usually employ different languages to express their informational and motivational attitudes. During communication processes, the agents should therefore employ some translation mechanism in order to understand the information provided by the other agents. In this paper, we develop a logical framework based on a possible world semantics to model the informational attitudes of agents. The framework covers operations to incorporate newly acquired information, even in case this information is not expressed in the agents' own vocabulary. Finally, we define an abstract programming language for bilateral communication processes in which agents use these operations to build translations between their individual vocabularies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Universiteit Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508, TB Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der Hoek & John-Jules Ch. Meyer

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van Eijk, R.M., de Boer, F.S., van der Hoek, W., Meyer, JJ.C. (1998). Constructing translations between individual vocabularies in multi-agent systems. In: Giunchiglia, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057449

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