Cooperative dialogues with the support of autonomous agents
Geof Staniford, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Paul E.S. Dunne · 2002
An architectural specification of independent communicating agents is described. Such agents are designed for use in an environment which is most suitably represented as a graph or network and an example of one such environment is given based on the structured document graph paradigm. The specifications extend agent architectures in a natural way so that the complexities found in distributed systems may be addressed. Such an approach has a number of advantages. It provides a general representation paradigm that can be used as a basis in a wide range of intelligent distributed systems, and is easily customized to cope with problems requiring graphs with differing structures and with different node and edge properties and attributes. A suitable platform to build agents and environments and an example of cooperative communication using dialogue analysis are presented.>