A theory of goal-oriented communication
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Goldreich, Oded; Juba, Brendan Andrew; Sudan, Madhu
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We put forward a general theory of goal-oriented communication, where communication is not an end in itself, but rather a means to achieving some goals of the communicating parties. Focusing on goals provides a framework for addressing the problem of potential "misunderstanding" during communication, where the misunderstanding arises from lack of initial agreement on what protocol and/or language is being used in communication. Despite the enormous diversity among the goals of communication, we propose a simple model that captures all goals.
Date issued
2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryJournal
Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing, PODC '11
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
Goldreich, Oded, Brendan Juba, and Madhu Sudan. A Theory of Goal-oriented Communication. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 11, 299. Association for Computing Machinery, 2011.
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9781450307192