Commitment-based and dialogue-game-based protocols: New trends in agent communication languages

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-179

  Maudet, N ^a   Chaib Draa, B ^b  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PUBLIC POLICY; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES (ACL); CONVERSATION POLICY (CP); ONTOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0345814989     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888902000486     Document Type: Review

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