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A Note on Modelling Speech Acts as Signalling Conventions

In: Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce

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  • Andrew J.I. Jones

    (King’s College)

  • Steven Orla Kimbrough

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

This paper presents a fully formal integration of Jones’s logical theory of speech acts as signalling conventions with Kimbrough’s Formal Language for Business Communication (FLBC). The work is part of a larger programme of logicism in the context of electronic commerce. Speech acts are an especially apt subject for this programme because of their pervasiveness and importance in communication for all commerce, electronic or not. The paper demonstrates that the conventionist view of speech acts, embodied in Jones’s logical theory, fits naturally with Kimbrough’s FLBC and with the Basic Messaging Framework for business communications. Further, the paper provides an illustration of how the resulting integrated theory might be implemented in practice through logic programming.

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  • Andrew J.I. Jones & Steven Orla Kimbrough, 2005. "A Note on Modelling Speech Acts as Signalling Conventions," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Steven O. Kimbrough & D.J. Wu (ed.), Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce, pages 325-342, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-540-26989-2_12
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26989-4_12
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    Cited by:

    1. Andrew J. I. Jones & Xavier Parent, 2007. "A Convention-based Approach to Agent Communication Languages," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 101-141, March.

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