MAP a : a Language for Modelling Conversations in Agent Environments

In this paper we present the MAP a language for expressing dialogues in multiagent systems. This is accomplished by defining patterns of communication between groups of agents, expressed by protocols. Our language is directly imple- mentable and allows to specify the connection between communication and knowl- edge management in a way that is independent of the specific reasoning techniques used. Here we introduce MAP a formal syntax and we point out added features with respect to its predecessor, the MAP language.