Taken from 'Dialogue Frames in Agent Communication' (1998), by Chris Reed
Clearly the various types of dialogue are not concerned with identical substrate: persuasion, inquiry and information-seeking are epistemic, negotiation is concerned with what might generally be called 'contracts', and deliberation with 'plans'. The model presented [] does not aim to restrict either the agent architecture or the underlying communication protocol to any particular formalism...
Thus the foundation of the model is a set of agents, A, each of whom have a set of beliefs, B, contracts, C, and plans, P...
... it is possible to define the set of dialogue types, where each type is a name-substrate pair,
D = {(persuade,B), (negotiate,C), (inquire,B), (deliberate,P), (infoseek,B)}
From this matrix, a dialogue frame is defined as a tuple with four elements...
A dialogue frame is thus of a particular type, t, and focused on a particular topic, tau, - a persuasion dialogue will be focused on a particular belief, a negotiation on a contract, a deliberation on a plan, and so on. A dialogical frame is initiated by a propose-accept sequence, and terminates with a characteristic utterance indicating acceptance or concession to the topic on the part of one of the agents...
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