Introduction to the special section on agent communication

The study of probabilistically verifiable proofs originated in the mid 1980s with the introduction of Interactive Proof Systems (IPs). The primary focus of research in this area in the '80s has been twofold: the role of zero-knowledge interactive proofs ...

An agent message is an attempted action upon the information state of the receiver that, if successful, would cause the receiver to move to a new information state. A model of normative communication can define when messages are not merely unsuccessful ...

This paper proposes the agent communication system, in which many communication system's elements, such as communication services, charging and network operation functions, are expressed as agents and multimedia communication services are offered by ...