In this work, we face the problem of web service composition, arguing the importance of the inclusion, in a web service description, of the high-level communication protocol used by a service to interact with a client. The work is set in the same multi-agent research area from which DAMLS is derived: reasoning about actions and about the change produced by actions on the world. In this perspect...

Received Accepted When humans point, they reveal to others their underlying intent to communicate about some distant goal. A controversy has recently emerged based on a broad set of comparative and phylogenetically relevant data. In particular, whereas chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have difficulty in using human-generated communicative gestures and actions such as pointing and placing symbolic ...

Commercial enterprises are increasingly using online communities to allow customers to interact with each other before and after a purchase, and television shows are using them to get a closer grip on the audience. Although they have been around since the foundation of the Internet, little research has been done to understand the communicative interactions that arise within such online communit...

When humans point, they reveal to others their underlying intent to communicate about some distant goal. A controversy has recently emerged based on a broad set of comparative and phylogenetically relevant data. In particular, whereas chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have difficulty in using human-generated communicative gestures and actions such as pointing and placing symbolic markers to find hi...

The primary goal of our demonstration is to show results we obtained on communication among artificial and human agents interacting in a simulated air defense domain. For artificial agents, we advocate a decision-theoretic message selection mechanism which maximizes the expected utility of the communicative actions. Thus, the agents compute the expected utility of alternative communicative beha...

We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in a...

We delineate a theory of communicative acts as situated actions, through which agents co-construct a viable situation by creating or otherwise manipulating deontic affordances. We rely on Gilbert’s theory of plural subjects to introduce the concept of joint meaning as a type of joint commitment. We then show that our approach allows for an innovative treatment of indirect speech.

This paper criticizes previous approaches to per-locutions and previous formalizations of perlocu-tionary eeects of communicative actions by showing that some of their fundamental assumptions are inconsistent with data from communication studies, psychology, and social studies of persuasion. Consequently, it argues for a data-driven approach to pragmatics, one that permits pragmatic theories to...

The problem of classifying text based on the deep parsing structure is addressed. An algorithm for document classification tasks where counts of words or n-grams is insufficient is proposed. The parse tree kernel method at the level of paragraphs, based on anaphora, rhetoric structure relations and communicative actions linking phrases in the parse thicket is considered.