One of the most attractive arguments for taking a logical approach to communication, action and knowledge is the prospect of accounting for the ability of agents to perform inference in performing and recognizing communicative actions. In this squib, I illustrate how NLG systems can pose and evaluate logical queries inspired by the work of (Moore, 1985; Morgenstern, 1987; Davis, 1994) to assess...

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. We attempt to establish a theory about proactive information exchanges based on the SharedPlan framework and Cohen and Levesque’s formalization of communicative actio...

We propose an infrastructure for the design and development of Open Interaction Systems (OISs), based on solutions from the areas of Service Oriented Architecture, Semantic Technologies and Normative Multiagent Systems, in particular the OCeAN metamodel of Artificial Institution. OISs are open to diverse types of participants (i.e., software agents), and enable them to interact with each other ...

Communication is central to the effectiveness of nonviolent action: methods of protest and persuasion are essentially means of communication, while methods of noncooperation and nonviolent intervention have crucial communicative dimensions. As a mode of political communication, nonviolence can be contrasted with rational dialogue, electoral politics and violence, and stands out from them in com...

In face-to-face conversation, communicators orchestrate multimodal contributions that meaningfully combine the linguistic resources of spoken language and the visuo-spatial affordances of gesture. In this paper, we characterise this meaningful combination in terms of the COHERENCE of gesture and speech. Descriptive analyses illustrate the diverse ways gesture interpretation can supplement and e...

A communicative device that a signer can take advantage of in the visual–gestural modality is the use of the signer’s body to depict the actions and movements of an object—whether that object be animate or inanimate. This communicative device (referred to within this abstract as becoming the object) is used frequently in signed narratives, but it also appears in other genres of signing. Whether...

How is communicative gesture behavior in robots perceived by humans? Although gesture is a crucial feature of social interaction, this research question is still largely unexplored in the field of social robotics. The present work thus sets out to investigate how robot gesture can be used to design and realize more natural and human-like communication capabilities for social robots. The adopted...

No studies were located that examined health effects in humans or animals exposed to threeor fourmembered mixtures of the five components of concern. No PBPK models were found for threeor fourmembered mixtures of these chemicals. The following subsections present evaluations of health effects data and discussions of mechanistic information pertinent to the joint toxic action of each pair of com...