Design-World: A t e s t b e d of c o m m u n i c a t i v e a c t i o n and r e s o u r c e limits M a r i l y n A. W a l k e r M i t s u b i s h i Electric Research Labs 201 B r o a d w a y C a m b r i d g e , Ma. 02139 walker@merl.com Pamela W. Jordan University of P i t t s b u r g h Intelligent S y s t e m s P r o g r a m Pittsburgh, PA jordan@isp.pitt.edu Introduction (1) Design-World is a simulation testbed developed in order to support experiments on the relationship of communicative action to agents' processing limitations. This testbed can be used as a tool for teaching both technical and methodological concepts in AI. On the technical side, running Design-World experiments introduces the student to concepts of dialogue and how it is structured, natural language generation and planning communicative acts, multi-agent collaboration as a team during problem-solving, and the effect of
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