Introduction to scenario description language Q

One of the most important attributes of social agents is the ability to fluently interact with human communities. Interaction scenarios are seldom designed by computer professionals, and instead are most often specified by application designers such as sales managers, travel agencies, and school teachers. Our challenge is to extend agent technologies to ensure the social acceptance of agents in various applications. To this end, we have developed Q, a language for designing interaction scenarios among agents and human communities. Q can also act as an interface between computer professionals and application designers. This paper details the specifications of Q, and shows how to design and execute scenarios for social agents.