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A Framework for Inter-society Communication in Agents

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Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services (NODe 2002)

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Normally a society of agents is developed to cope with and solve a particular set of problems or to achieve some particular goals and objectives. Different people, organizations and groups have developed and deployed agent societies for their own particular needs. These societies have to communicate, coordinate and compete with each other. In this paper an explanation is provided as to what is meant by inter society communication in agents, why it is needed and some basic problems in the area of inter-society communication are identified. A framework for inter-society communication in agent systems is also proposed.

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP, Oxford, UK

    R. Abbasi, F. Mitchell & S. Greenwood

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia

    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  4. Siemens AG, CT IC 6, Munich, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  5. Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Huaglory Tianfield

  6. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Abbasi, R., Mitchell, F., Greenwood, S. (2003). A Framework for Inter-society Communication in Agents. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_14

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