Computational Interaction Frames


Michael Rovatsos  
Technical University of Munich

Friday, 25th July 2003
0930 - 1100

RMIT University Function Room (near Kaleide Theatre)
Building 8, level 2, RMIT,
Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Abstract:

This talk summarises recent work on the computational modelling of interaction frames and framing. Both are sociologically inspired concepts that describe how intelligent agents organise knowledge about the interactions they experience into reasonable representations of interaction structures ("frames") and how they apply this knowledge strategically to manage their interactions ("framing"). We discuss three uses of frames and framing:
  1. as building blocks for social reasoning architectures,
  2. as a foundation for empirical ACL semantics, and
  3. as primitives for the specification of interaction processes.
We illustrate the usefulness of our approach with applications in open multiagent systems and report on its relationship to other efforts in our group.

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