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Recently in the field of agent communication, many authors have adopted the view of interaction as a joint activity regulated by means of dialogue games. It is argued in particular that this approach should increase the flexibility of dialogues by allowing a variety of game compositions. In this research note, we present a framework suited to this feature. A preliminary attempt to capture the negotiation phase (which allows agents to agree upon the dialogue game currently regulating their conversation) is discussed.
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Maudet, N. Negotiating Dialogue Games. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 7, 229–233 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024735317444
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