Agent communication and institutional reality

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

Volumn 3396, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-17

  Fornara, Nicoletta ^a   Viganò, Francesco ^a   Colombetti, Macro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE (ACL); ARTIFICIAL INSTITUTION; COMMITMENT-BASED SEMANTICS; ONTOLOGY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 26844513377     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32258-0_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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