Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, ArgMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers / Edition 1

by Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, Pavlos Moraitis

Overview

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research involving philosophy, communications studies, linguistics, psychology, and logics. Its techniques have found a wide range of applications in both theoretical and practical branches of artificial intelligence and computer science. Multi-agent systems theory has picked up argumentation-inspired approaches and specifically argumentation-theoretic results from many different areas. Researchers in argumentation and multi-agent systems are currently enjoying a unique opportunity to integrate the various understandings of argument into a coherent and core part of the functioning of autonomous computational systems.

This book originates from the First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMAS 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004. Besides 12 selected revised full papers taken from the workshop, 4 additional papers by key people in the area round off overall coverage of the relevant topics. The papers address the following main topics: foundations of dialogues, belief revision, persuasion and deliberation, negotiation, and strategic issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540245261
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/24/2005
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3366
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Foundations of Dialogues.- Some Preliminary Steps Towards a Meta-theory for Formal Inter-agent Dialogues.- Towards a Formal and Implemented Model of Argumentation Schemes in Agent Communication.- Formal Dialectic Specification.- A Modal Semantics for an Argumentation-Based Pragmatics for Agent Communication.- Layered Strategies and Prools for Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction.- Belief Revision.- Revising Beliefs Through Arguments: Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation and Belief Revision in MAS.- An Argument-Based Framework to Model an Agent’s Beliefs in a Dynamic Environment.- Argumentation in Bayesian Belief Networks.- Persuasion & Deliberation.- Specifying and Implementing a Persuasion Dialogue Game Using Commitments and Arguments.- A Dialogue Game Prool for Multi-agent Argument over Proposals for Action.- A Denotational Semantics for Deliberation Dialogues.- Negotiation.- Bargaining and Argument-Based Negotiation: Some Preliminary Comparisons.- On the Generation of Bipolar Goals in Argumentation-Based Negotiation.- A Bayes Net Approach to Argumentation Based Negotiation.- Negotiation Among DDeLP Agents.- Strategic Issues.- Is It Worth Arguing?.- When Is It Okay to Lie? A Simple Model of Contradiction in Agent-Based Dialogues.