An agent-based approach to dialogue management in personal assistants

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 137-144

  Nguyen, Anh ^a   Wobcke, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

BDI Agent Architecture; Dialogue Modelling; Personal Assistant

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PERSONNEL; USER INTERFACES;

BDI AGENT ARCHITECTURE; DIALOGUE MODELLING; PERSONAL ASSISTANT;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644601882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040830.1040865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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