Locutions for argumentation in agent interaction protocols

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

Volumn 3396, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-225

  McBurney, Peter ^a   Parsons, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; FATIO PROTOCOL; FIPA ACL; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26844517765     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32258-0_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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