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A formal framework for inter-agent dialogues

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Peter McBurney,

Simon ParsonsAuthors Info & Claims

AGENTS '01: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents

Pages 178 - 179

https://doi.org/10.1145/375735.376091

Published: 28 May 2001 Publication History

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We present a logic-based formalism for modeling of dialogues between intelligent and autonomous software agents, building on a theory of abstract dialogue games which we present. The formalism enables representation of complex dialogues as sequences of moves in a combination of dialogue games, and allows dialogues to be embedded inside one another. The formalism can be readily operationalized and its modular nature enables different types of dialogues to be represented.

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