In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multiagent systems. The current work can therefore build on a number of previous Workshops of which the proceedings have been published in earlier volumes in this series. The basis of this collection is formed by the accepted submissions of the Workshop on Agent Communication held in c- junction with the AAMAS Conference in July 2004 in New York. The workshop received 26 submissions of which 14 were selected for publication...

Dans le cadre de cette thA]se, nous nous intA(c)ressons A l'interaction dans les systA]mes multi-agents et plus particuliA]rement, aux protocoles d'interaction. Nous avons pu constater l'absence d'une ingA(c)nierie des protocoles d'interaction. Aussi, nous faisons la proposition d'une telle ingA(c)nierie. Elle s'inspire de celle prA(c)sente dans les tA(c)lA(c)communications et se dA(c)compose en plusieurs phases: (1) l'analyse, (2) la description formelle, (3) la validation, (4) l'implA(c)mentation et (5) le test de conformitA(c). L'analyse dA(c)crit le protocole en langage naturel. La...