Multi-Agent-Systems or MAS represent a powerful distributed computing model, enabling
agents to cooperate and complete with each other and to exchange both semantic content …

Increasingly, software engineering involves open systems consisting of autonomous and
heterogeneous participants or agents who carry out loosely coupled interactions …

We shall introduce a set of fundamental legal concepts, providing a definition of each of
them. This set will include, besides the usual deontic modalities (obligation, prohibition and …

Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These
communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more …

Modal logics see a wide variety of applications in artificial intelligence, eg in reasoning
about knowledge, belief, uncertainty, agency, defaults, and relevance. From the perspective …

We examine a variety of dialogue protocols, taking inspiration from two fields: natural
language dialogue modelling and multiagent systems. In communicative interaction, one …

Conventional approaches to the modeling of autonomous agents and agent communication
rely heavily on the ascription of mental properties like beliefs and intentions to the individual …

This paper aims at defining the semantics of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) in
terms of changes in the social relationships between agents, represented in terms of social …

Utterance events can be described in various ways, but only some of these ways provide
information on what, in producing their utterances, speakers mean. For example, saying that …

This article aims to provide foundations for a new approach to Agent Communication
Languages (ACLs). First, we present the theory of signalling acts. In contrast to current …