@incollection{Lillis2011,
 title = {Augmenting {{Agent Platforms}} to {{Facilitate Conversation Reasoning}}},
 booktitle = {Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems - Third International Workshop, {{LADS}} 2010, Lyon, France, August 30 - September 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
 author = {Lillis, David and Collier, Rem W.},
 editor = {Dastani, Mehdi and Seghrouchni, Amal El Fallah and H{\"u}bner, Jomi F. and Leite, Jo{\~a}o},
 year = {2011},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 volume = {6822},
 pages = {56--75},
 publisher = {{Springer Berlin Heidelberg}},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-22723-3_4},
 abstract = {Within Multi Agent Systems, communication by means of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) has a key role to play in the co-operation, co-ordination and knowledge-sharing between agents. De- spite this, complex reasoning about agent messaging, and specifically about conversations between agents, tends not to have widespread support amongst general-purpose agent programming languages. ACRE (Agent Communication Reasoning Engine) aims to complement the existing logical reasoning capabilities of agent programming languages with the capability of reasoning about complex interaction protocols in order to facilitate conversations between agents. This paper outlines the aims of the ACRE project and gives details of the functioning of a prototype implementation within the Agent Factory multi agent framework.},
 isbn = {978-3-642-22722-6},
}