Agents & Dialogue, VT99

Plan

	Date	Time	Subject	Litterature
1	4/3	15-17	The concept of an Agent	Wooldridge & Jennings
2	11/3	15-17	Dialogue agent architecture	Traum 1996a, 1996b
3	25/3	15-17	Speech acts for dialogue agents	Traum 1999
4	8/4	15-17	Intentions and Possible Worlds	Cohen & Levesque 1990a, 1990b
4	15/4	15-17	Intentions and cooperation in dialogue	Cohen & Levesque 1990a, 1990b
5	29/4	15-17	A rational agent as the kernel of a dialogue system	Bretier & Sadek 1996
6	20/5	15-17	Situated Automata	Rosenschein & Kaelbling 1995

Stuff we won't get to (this semester)...

7	?	15-17	Abductive reasoning & programming
?	?	15-17		Pollack 1990, Grosz & Sidner 1990
?	?	15-17	The BDI model	Rao and Georgeff (1992)
?	?	15-17	OZ and MOZART
?	?	15-17	DARPA Communicator

Literature

• Bretier, P, and M. D. Sadek (1996): A rational agent as the kernal of a cooperative spoken dialogue system: implementing a logical theory of interaction. In ECAI-96 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-96), Budapest, August 12-16, 1996.
• Cohen, P. R. and Levesque, H. J. (1990a): Persistence, Intention, and Commitment. In Cohen P. R., Morgan, J., and Pollack, M. E. (eds.), in Intentions in Communication, SDF Benchmark Series, MIT Press 1990 pp. 33-71.
• Cohen, P. R. and Levesque, H. J. (1990b): Rational Interaction as a Basis for Communication, Cohen P. R., Morgan, J., and Pollack, M. E. (eds.), in Intentions in Communication, SDF Benchmark Series, MIT Press 1990 pp. 221-255.
• Cohen, P.R. and H.J. Levesque (1995): Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, AAAI Press, San Francisco, June, 1995.
• Cohen, P.R., A. Cheyer, M. Wang, and S.C. Baeg (1994): An open agent architecture. In AAAI Spring Symposium, pp. 1--8, Mar. 1994.
• M. Georgeff, B. Pell, M. E. Pollack, M. Tambe, and M. Wooldridge (1998): The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency. To appear in N. Jenning, J. Muller, and M. Wooldridge, Intelligent Agents V, Springer Publishers, 1998.
• B. Grosz and C. Sidner (1990): Plans for discourse. In Intentions In Communication, Cambridge, MA, 1990. MIT Press.
• Pollack, M. E. (1990): Plans as Complex Mental Attitudes. In P. R. Cohen, J. Morgan, M. E. Pollack, eds., Intentions in Communication, MIT Press.
• A. S. Rao and M. P. Georgeff (1992): An abstract architecture for rational agents. In C. Rich et al, eds.(1992): Proceedings of KR&R '92.
• Rosenschein, S. J., and L. P. Kaelbling (1986): The Synthesis of Digital Machines with Provable Epistemic Properties. In Joseph V. Halpern (1986): Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge : proceedings of the 1986 conference, March 19-22, 1986, Monterey, California.
• Rosenschein, S. J., and L. P. Kaelbling (1995): A situated view of representation and control. Artificial Intelligence 73.
• Traum, D. R. (1996a): A Reactive-Deliberative Model of Dialogue Agency. To be presented at The Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ECAI-96), August, 1996.
• Traum, D. R. (1996b): Conversational Agency: The Trains-93 Dialogue Manager. In proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 11:Dialogue Management in Natural Language Systems, pages 1-11, June 1996.
• Traum, D. R. (1999): Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents.
• Wooldridge & Jennings (1995): Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice. In Knowledge Enginerring Review, 10(2), June 1995.
• M. Young, J. D. Moore, and M. E. Pollack (1994): Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Abduction: Susan McRoy?

Architectures and Implementation

• SRI's Open Agent Architecture
• The DARPA Communicator
• CORBA
• Oz and Mozart
• Mercury
• LINDA (with SICSTUS)
• KQML