Some preliminary steps towards a meta-theory for formal inter-agent dialogues

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

Volumn 3366, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-18

  Parsons, Simon ^a   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

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; METADATA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ARGUMENTATION; META-THEORY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26844482698     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32261-0_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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