In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of
conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of an artificial …

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 work introduces expectation-oriented modeling (EOM) as a conceptual and formal
framework for the modeling and influencing of black-or gray-box agents and agent …

Technological innovation is constantly transforming the environment wherein we live, work
and interact. The growing availability of ever smaller computational devices and pervasive …

In the context of open environments like Open Multiagent and Peer2Peer Systems, the
Semantic Web and Communities of Practice, knowledge-based applications with self …

It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial
agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-based …

This paper proposes dynamic semantics for agent communication languages (ACLs) as a
method for tackling some of the fundamental problems associated with agent …

This paper introduces communication systems (CS) as a unified model for socially intelligent
systems. This model derived from sociological systems theory, combines the empirical …

An important kind of tacit knowledge in the context of the Semantic Web are the social
communication structures among heterogeneous knowledge sources and users …

This paper presents communication systems (CS) as the first available unified model of
socially intelligent systems defined in terms of communication structures. It combines the …