The mechanics of some formal inter-agent dialogues

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2922, Issue , 2004, Pages 329-348

  Parsons, Simon ^a,b   McBurney, Peter ^b   Wooldridge, Michael ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SET THEORY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMPLEX PROTOCOLS; FORMAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN DIALOGUES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 23144436405     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24608-4_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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