C3-IIA SIG Meeting Barcelona 3.2.2003

The social stance on language• Language games (Wittgenstein)

• Speech act theory (Austin, Searle)

• “Discourse as social interaction” (van Dijk)

Social Semantics of ACL:• Commitment-based approach

(Singh, Colombetti, ...)• Protocol-based approach (Pitt, …)

ACLs

Organisational models ACLs:• Methodologies for agent-oriented software

development(Wooldridge, Ferber, ...)

• e-institutions (Noriega, Sierra, ...)

Integration of ACL and Organisational models:• Roles integrated in the semantics of performatives

• Commitments backed by e-institution

Intentional semantics not enough