Ontological feedback in multiagent systems

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 110-117

  Beun, Robbert Jan ^a   Van Eijk, Rogier M ^a   Prüst, Huub ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ontological discrepancies; Ontological feedback; Presuppositions; Type theory

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ONTOLOGICAL DISCREPANCIES; ONTOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PRESUPPOSITIONS; TYPE THEORY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544350955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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