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title: "Distributive and Collective Readings in Group Protocols"
authors:
  - "Silvia Rossi"
  - "Sanjeev Kumar"
  - "Philip R. Cohen"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/201"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0201.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "971-975"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Distributive and Collective Readings in Group Protocols

Silvia Rossi, Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 971-975.

## Abstract

Collaborative applications require protocols that specify how distributed entities interact with one another in order to achieve a specified behavior. Many different kinds of relationships can be established between these entities as a result of such interactions. Distributive and Collective readings are two important ways to characterize group interaction. Starting from an attempt-based semantics of group communicative acts, we distinguish between these two concepts and evaluate group protocols with respect to formation of different types of teams during the interaction.