Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment

Eric Platon; Nicolas Sabouret; Shinichi Honiden

doi:10.1007/11678809_8

Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment

Eric Platon^*, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden

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Abstract

Overhearing has been proposed recently as a model of indirect interactions in Multi-Agent Systems, Overhearer agents receive messages that were not primarily sent to them, as when someone hears a conversation among others. Overhearing has been modeled essentially as message broadcasting, but this approach raises several issues of seal-ability and appropriateness of the mental state of overheard agents. In this paper, we motivate and propose & model of overhearing that copes with these issues by introducing an explicit environment entity to handle overhearing. We define key notions with focus on the environment perspective, model them and their relations, and detail an algorithm that describes the environmental process for agent interactions. We finally illustrate our approach with an electronic market scenario.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers
Pages	121-138
Number of pages	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11678809_8
Publication status	Published - 2006 Jul 3
Externally published	Yes
Event	Second International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, E4MAS 2005 - Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 2005 Jul 25 → 2005 Jul 25

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	3830 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	Second International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, E4MAS 2005
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	05/7/25 → 05/7/25

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Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Platon, E., Sabouret, N., & Honiden, S. (2006). Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment. In Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers (pp. 121-138). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3830 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/11678809_8

Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment. / Platon, Eric; Sabouret, Nicolas; Honiden, Shinichi.
Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers. 2006. p. 121-138 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3830 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Platon, E, Sabouret, N & Honiden, S 2006, Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment. in Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3830 LNAI, pp. 121-138, Second International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, E4MAS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, 05/7/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/11678809_8

Platon E, Sabouret N, Honiden S. Overhearing and direct interactions: Point of view of an active environment. In Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers. 2006. p. 121-138. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/11678809_8

Platon, Eric ; Sabouret, Nicolas ; Honiden, Shinichi. / Overhearing and direct interactions : Point of view of an active environment. Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II - Second International Workshop, E4MAS 2005, Selected Revised and Invited Papers. 2006. pp. 121-138 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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