Tuesday 12 June 2007

Conformance to Protocols

A protocol specifies the "rules of encounter" governing a dialogue between agents. It specifies which agent is allowed to say what in a given situation.

There are different levels of (an agent's) conformance to a protocol, as follows:

- Weak conformance - iff it will never utter an illegal dialogue move.

- Exhaustive conformance - iff it is weakly conformant and it will utter at least one dialogue move when required by the protocol.

- Robust conformance - iff it is exhaustively conformant and it utters the (special) dialogue more "not-understood" whenever it receives an illegal move from the other agent.

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