Posit Spaces: A Performative Model of e-Commerce

Proceedings of the Interantional Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 624-631

  McBurney, Peter ^a   Parsons, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Communications Languages; Commitments; e Commerce; Javaspaces; Negotiation; Performatives; Speech Acts; Tuple Spaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOGIC DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; STANDARDIZATION; SYNTACTICS;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS LANGUAGES; COMMITMENTS; JAVASPACES; NEGOTIATION; PERFORMATIVES; SPEECH ACTS; TUPLE SPACES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 1142305155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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