A logical model for commitment and argument network for agent communication (extended abstract)

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 792-799

  Bentahar, Jamal ^a   Moulin, Bernard ^a   Meyer, John Jules Ch ^b   Chaib Draa, Brahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GAME THEORY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS (AC); CREDITORS; DYNAMIC LOGIC (DL); SOCIAL COMMITMENTS (SC);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544251913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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