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Mediation services are becoming increasingly important in multiagent systems. An agent that can act on behalf of another agent is one important example of mediation functionality commonly required. Within this paper, we define and analyze PROXY and PROXY-WEAK communicative acts that formally specify semantics for interacting with middle agents that provide proxy services. These two communicative acts are shown to have a distinctly different impact upon the mental state of the agents involved and impose significantly different levels of commitment upon the middle agents.
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Huber, M.J., Kumar, S., Cohen, P.R., McGee, D.R. (2002). A Formal Semantics for ProxyCommunicative Acts. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_16
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