Publications

• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Marco Schmitt, Wilfried Brauer, Felix Fischer, Thomas Malsch, Kai Paetow, Gerhard Weiss. The Empirical Semantics Approach to Communication Structure Learning and Usage: Individuals- vs. System-Views. In Nigel Gilbert (Ed.), Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), 2006. To appear.
  
  
• Benoit Gaudou, Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin, Matthias Nickles. A New Semantics for the FIPA Agent Communication Language based on Social Attitudes. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), 2006.
  
  
• Felix Fischer, Matthias Nickles. Computational Opinions. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), 2006.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles. Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), 2006. To appear.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Ruth Cobos. Social Contexts and the Probabilistic Fusion and Ranking of Opinions: Towards a Social Semantics for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW-06) @ ISWC-06, 2006. To appear.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss. Expectation-oriented Modeling. In International Journal on Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Vol. 18, Elsevier, 2005.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Felix Fischer, Gerhard Weiss. Communication Attitudes: A Formal Approach to Ostensible Intentions and Individual and Group Opinions. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems (LCMAS) @ IJCAI'05, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles. Exposing the Communication Level of Open Systems: Expectations, Ostensible Attitudes and Multi-Source Assertions. Research Report FKI-249-05, AI/Cognition Group, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 2005.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss. Formulating Agent Communication Semantics and Pragmatics as Behavioral Expectations. In Frank Dignum, Rogier van Eijk, Marc-Philippe Huget (Eds.). Agent Communication Languages II (postproceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Agent Communication AC2004), Springer LNAI, 2005.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiss. Towards a Unified Model of Sociality in Multiagent Systems. International Journal of Computer and Information Science (IJCIS), Vol. 5, No. 1, 2004. ( pdf )
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss. Empirical-Rational Semantics of Agent Communication. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'04). New York City, 2004. ( pdf )
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiss. Towards a Unified Model of Sociality in Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD'03). Lübeck, Germany, 2003.
  
  
• Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiss. An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems. In Frank Dignum (Ed.), Agent communication languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2922, 2004.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiss. Communication Systems: A Unified Model of Socially Intelligent Systems. In Klaus Fischer, Michael Florian, Thomas Malsch (editors): Socionics: Its Contributions to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems. Springer LNAI, 2004. ( pdf )
  
  
• Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiss. Interaction is Meaning: A New Model for Communication in Open System. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'03), Melbourne, Australia, 2003.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiss: Empirical Semantics of Agent Communication in Open Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Environments, 2003.
  
  
• Matthias Nickles. An Observation-based Approach to the Semantics of Agent Communication . Research Report FKI-2xx-03, AI/Cognition Group, Department of Informatics, Technical University Munich, 2003.
  
  
• Kai F. Lorentzen, Matthias Nickles. Ordnung aus Chaos - Prolegomena zu einer Luhmann'schen Modellierung deentropisierender Strukturbildung in Multiagentensystemen . In Thomas Kron (editor), Luhmann modelliert. Ansätze zur Simulation von Kommunikationssystemen. Leske & Budrich, 2002.
  
  
• Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, G. Weiß, Kai F. Lorentzen. Expectation-Oriented Analysis and Design . Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2001) at AAMAS 2001, Montreal, Canada, Springer LNCS Vol. 2222, 2002. ( pdf )