A social approach to communication in multiagent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2990, Issue , 2004, Pages 191-220

  Colombetti, Marco ^a,b   Fornara, Nicoletta ^a   Verdicchio, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES; ARTIFICIAL INSTITUTION; LOGICAL FORMALIZATION; OPERATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS; SOCIAL COMMITMENT; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 10444268583     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25932-9_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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