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Posit spaces
2003
Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - AAMAS '03
What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on speech act theory, in which e-commerce exchanges are promises of future commercial actions, whose real-world meanings are constructed jointly and incrementally. We then define a computational model for this theory, called Posit Spaces, along with the syntax and semantics for an agent interaction protocol, the Posit
doi:10.1145/860575.860675
dblp:conf/atal/McBurneyP03
fatcat:yhottmr5unbt7dbmzjoxjotq3y