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This paper motivates the use of inter-agent conversations in agent-based systems and proposes a general design for agent conversations. It also describes an instance of that design implemented in the CASA agent-based framework. While the agent community is generally familiar with the concept of a conversation, this paper’s contribution is a particular model in which flexible composition of conversations from smaller conversations is possible.
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Kremer, R., Flores, R. (2015). Policies, Conversations, and Conversation Composition. In: Barbosa, D., Milios, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9091. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18356-5_5
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