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Realizing Agent Dialogues with Distributed Protocols

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This paper describes a protocol language which can provide agents with a flexible mechanism for coherent dialogues. The protocol language does not rely on centralised control or bias toward a particular model of agent communication. Agents can adapt the protocol and distribute it to dialogical partners during interactions.

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  1. Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Room 4.15, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE

    Jarred McGinnis & David Robertson

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, 3508, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Rogier M. van Eijk

  2. Leibniz-MAGMA, 46, Avenue Felix Viallet, P.O. Box, 38031, Grenoble, France

    Marc-Philippe Huget

  3. Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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McGinnis, J., Robertson, D. (2005). Realizing Agent Dialogues with Distributed Protocols. In: van Eijk, R.M., Huget, MP., Dignum, F. (eds) Agent Communication. AC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32258-0_8

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