Synchronization in an asynchronous agent-based architecture for dialogue systems
Nate Blaylock, James F. Allen, George Ferguson · 2002
Most dialogue architectures are either pipelined or, if agent-based, are restricted to a pipelined flow-of-information. The TRIPS dialogue architecture is agent-based and asynchronous, with several layers of information flow. We present this architecture and the synchronization issues we encountered in building a truly distributed, agent-based dialogue architecture.