Argumentation as distributed belief revision: Conflict resolution in decentralised co-operative multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 2258 LNAI, Issue , 2001, Pages 205-218

  Malheiro, Benedita ^a,b   Oliveira, Eugénio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARGUMENTATION-BASED NEGOTIATION; BELIEF REVISION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; DECENTRALISED;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867792989     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45329-6_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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