Advances in Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages, ACL 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003. Revised and Invited PapersAuthor: Frank Dignum Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-20769-6 DOI: 10.1007/b94813Table of Contents:Conventional Signalling Acts and Conversation An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems An Exploration in Using Cognitive Coherence Theory to Automate BDI Agents’ Communicational Behavior A Performative Type Hierarchy and Other Interesting Considerations in the Design of the CASA Agent Architecture Model Checking for ACL Compliance Verification Logic-Based Agent Communication Protocols Protocol Specification Using a Commitment Based ACL A Logical Model of Social Commitment for Agent Communication Commitment and Argument Network: A New Formalism for Agent Communication Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines Issues in Multiparty Dialogues Towards a Testbed for Multi-party Dialogues Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report LOTTO: Group Formation by Overhearing in Large Teams Proactive Communications in Agent Teamwork Modularity in Interaction Protocols Concepts of Optimal Utterance in Dialogue: Selection and Complexity The Mechanics of Some Formal Inter-agent Dialogues A Cooperative Dialogue Game for Resolving Ontological Discrepancies, Includes bibliographical references and index