Abstract
The capabilities for agents in a team to anticipate information-needs of teammates and proactively offer relevant information are highly desirable. However, such behaviors have not been fully prescribed by existing agent theories. To establish a theory about proactive information exchanges, we first introduces the concept of "information-needs", then identify and formally define the intentional semantics of two proactive communicative acts, which highly depend on the speaker's awareness of others' information-needs. It is shown that communications using these proactive performatives can be derived as helping behaviors. Conversation policies involving these proactive performatives are also discussed. The work in this paper may serve as a guide for the specification and design of agent architectures, algorithms, and applications that support proactive communications in agent teamwork.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 271-290 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science) |
| Volume | 2922 |
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| State | Published - 2004 |
| Event | International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages, ACL 2003 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: Jul 14 2003 → Jul 14 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science