Abstract models for dialogue protocols

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-140

  Fernández, Raquel ^a   Endriss, Ulle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication protocols; Dialogue modelling; Multiagent systems; Theory of computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847275194     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10849-006-9032-z     Document Type: Article

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