Commitment and argument network: A new formalism for agent communication

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2922, Issue , 2004, Pages 146-165

  Bentahar, Jamal ^a   Moulin, Bernard ^a,b   Chaib draa, Brahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Geomatica Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURE; AGENT COMMUNICATION; COGNITIVE COHERENCE THEORY; AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; COMMITMENT AND ARGUMENT NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION MODELING; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; FORMAL FRAMEWORK;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 9244228908     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24608-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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