Communication in Multiagent Systems

Marc-Phillipe Huget

ISBN 10: 354040385X / ISBN 13: 9783540403852

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2003, 2003

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Agents in multiagent systems are concurrent autonomous entities that need to coordinate and to cooperate so as to perform their tasks; these coordination and cooperation tasks might be achieved through communication. Communication, also called interaction by some authors, thus represents one of the major topics in multiagent systems.The state of the art of research on communication in multiagent systems is presented in this book. First, three seminal papers by Cohen and Perrault, by Singh, and by Davis and Smith present background information and introduce the newcomer to the area. The main part of the book is devoted to current research work dealing with agent communication, communication for coordination and argumentation, protocols, and dialogue games and conversational agents. Finally, the last paper deals with the future of agent communication. 336 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Communication in Multiagent Systems
• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2003
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 354040385X
• ISBN-13: 9783540403852
• Bindung: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Agents in multiagent systems are concurrent autonomous entities that need to coordinate and to cooperate so as to perform their tasks; these coordination and cooperation tasks might be achieved through communication. Communication, also called interaction by some authors, thus represents one of the major topics in multiagent systems.

The state of the art of research on communication in multiagent systems is presented in this book. First, three seminal papers by Cohen and Perrault, by Singh, and by Davis and Smith present background information and introduce the newcomer to the area. The main part of the book is devoted to current research work dealing with agent communication, communication for coordination and argumentation, protocols, and dialogue games and conversational agents. Finally, the last paper deals with the future of agent communication.