A Dialogue Game Approach to Multi-Agent System Programming Henk-Jan Lebbink abc Cilia Witteman b

This paper approaches multi-agent system programming with dialogue games allowing the semantics of communicative acts to be a component in multi-agent architectures. We present a dialogue game for enquiry enabling agents to answer questions in a distributed fashion. In addition, we propose a reasoning game that defines when agents are allowed to make decisions, in the current case, decisions to accept to believe propositions. These games are brought together in a deliberation cycle and are implemented in Prolog.