Towards a theory for multiparty proactive communication in agent teams

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-298

  Kamali, Kaivan ^a   Fan, Xiaocong ^a   Yen, John ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent teamwork; Multiparty communications; Shared mental model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249910637     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843007001640     Document Type: Article

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