Communicative Acts and Interaction Protocols in a Distributed Information System

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1082-1083

  Nowostawski, Mariusz ^a   Carter, Daniel ^a   Cranefield, Stephen ^a   Purvis, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Communicative acts; FIPA; Information agents; Interaction protocols; Multi agent systems; NZDIS; Software agents

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COMMUNICATIVE ACTS; FIPA; INFORMATION AGENTS; INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; NEW ZEALAND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEM (NZDIS);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142268214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860575.860806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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