The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-132

  McBurney, Peter ^a   Hitchcock, David ^b   Parsons, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH;

DELIBERATION DIALOGUE; DELIBERATIVE REASONING; FORMAL DIALOGUE GAME;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 33846279801     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20191     Document Type: Article

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