An agent society can be defined as a collection of agents that
observe a number of social norms in order to more effectively interact
with one another with respect to a common concern. Dialogue
between
agents can be defined as a collaboration determining a distributed
concept. Given that concepts articulated in dialogue become part of the
social knowledge that is the basis for efficient interaction, it is
hypothesised that thedissemination of such dialogue artefacts is the
basis for the autonomous emergence of agent societies. Exploring this
hypothesis, it is proposed that an explicit calculus for dialogue
artefacts be designed and prototyped in order to evaluate how the
propagation of distributed knowledge through continual interaction can
form agent societies - and how such formation can optimise the
dissemination of knowledge within a complex multi-agent system.