Pragmatics of Agent Communication
| Document type: | Researchreports |
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| Author(s): | Hans Akkermans, Rune Gustavsson, Fredrik Ygge |
| Title: | Pragmatics of Agent Communication |
| Series: | Research Report |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| ISSN: | 1103-1581 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Dept. of Computer Science and Business Administration (Institutionen för datavetenskap och ekonomi) Dept. of Computer Science and Business Administration S-372 25 Ronneby +46 455 780 00 http://www.ide.hk-r.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | fredrik.ygge@enersearch.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The process of agent communication modeling has not yet received much attention in the knowledge systems area. Conventional knowledge systems are rather simple with respect to their communication structure: often it is a straightforward question-and-answer sequence between system and end user. However, this is different in recent intelligent multi-agent systems. Therefore, agent communication aspects are now in need of a much more advanced treatment in knowledge management, acquisition and modeling. In general, a much better integration between the respective achievements of multi-agent and knowledge-based systems modeling is an important research goal. In this paper, we describe how agent communications can be specified as an extension of well-known knowledge modeling techniques. The emphasis is on showing how a structured process of communication requirements analysis proceeds, based on existing results from agent communication languages. The guidelines proposed are illustrated by and based on a large-scale industrial multi-agent application for distributed energy load management in industries and households, called Homebots. Homebots enable cost savings in energy consumption by coordinating their actions through an auction mechanism. |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | Demand management, intelligent agents, power load management |
| Note: | Proceedings of KAW '98, Banff, Canada |
| URN: | urn:nbn:se:bth-00062 |
