Dialog construction in a collaborative project management environment

In this paper, we discuss the construction of dialogs for Personal Assistant Agents that are in charge of the interface between users and a Multi-Agent System. Such a system aims at providing support for small teams developing software collaboratively. These small teams have specific needs such as the integration of free or open-source tools or the support to elaborate project documentation. Considering such specific needs, we have elaborated a Multi-Agent architecture that has been implemented using a platform called OMAS. We present the structure that OMAS offers to handle dialogs with users and discuss some implementation details. We also describe some of the dialogs that represent interactions between members of small software development teams and their Personal Assistant Agents. We consider that the use of Personal Assistant Agents can help small teams to handle documentation issues in an integrated and undemanding way.