TY - GEN
T1 - A theory of goal-oriented communication
AU - Goldreich, Oded
AU - Juba, Brendan
AU - Sudan, Madhu
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - semantic communication
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79959887550
U2 - 10.1145/1993806.1993863
DO - 10.1145/1993806.1993863
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959887550
SN - 9781450307192
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
SP - 299
EP - 300
BT - PODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing
T2 - 30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'11, Held as Part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC
Y2 - 6 June 2011 through 8 June 2011
ER -