A commitment-based approach to agent communication

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 853-866

  Fornara, Nicoletta ^a   Colombetti, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES; COMMUNICATIVE ACTS; INTERACTION PROTOCOL; INTERACTION SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 9244234446     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510490509054     Document Type: Article

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