State-based modeling method for multiagent conversation protocols and decision activities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2592, Issue , 2003, Pages 151-166

  König, Ralf ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conversation; Conversation specification; Decision activity; Multiagent communication

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVERSATION; CONVERSATION PROTOCOL; DIFFERENT LAYERS; LAYERED ARCHITECTURE; MULTI-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; STATE-BASED MODELS; INTERFACES; MODEL CONSERVATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY;

EID: 7444237112     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36559-1_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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