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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

First International Workshop, ArgMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

  • Iyad Rahwan
  • Pavlos Moraïtis
  • Chris Reed
Conference proceedings ArgMAS 2004

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3366)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 3366)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Foundations of Dialogues

    1. Some Preliminary Steps Towards a Meta-theory for Formal Inter-agent Dialogues
      Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, Michael Wooldridge
      Pages 1-18
    2. Towards a Formal and Implemented Model of Argumentation Schemes in Agent Communication
      Chris Reed, Doug Walton
      Pages 19-30
    3. Formal Dialectic Specification
      Simon Wells, Chris Reed
      Pages 31-43
    4. A Modal Semantics for an Argumentation-Based Pragmatics for Agent Communication
      Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Brahim Chaib-draa
      Pages 44-63
    5. Layered Strategies and Protocols for Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction
      Antonis Kakas, Nicolas Maudet, Pavlos Moraitis
      Pages 64-77

  3. Belief Revision

    1. Revising Beliefs Through Arguments: Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation and Belief Revision in MAS
      Fabio Paglieri, Cristiano Castelfranchi
      Pages 78-94
    2. An Argument-Based Framework to Model an Agent’s Beliefs in a Dynamic Environment
      Marcela Capobianco, Carlos I. Chesñevar, Guillermo R. Simari
      Pages 95-110
    3. Argumentation in Bayesian Belief Networks
      Gerard A. W. Vreeswijk
      Pages 111-129

  4. Persuasion & Deliberation

    1. Specifying and Implementing a Persuasion Dialogue Game Using Commitments and Arguments
      Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, Brahim Chaib-draa
      Pages 130-148
    2. A Dialogue Game Protocol for Multi-agent Argument over Proposals for Action
      Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, Peter McBurney
      Pages 149-161
    3. A Denotational Semantics for Deliberation Dialogues
      Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
      Pages 162-175

  5. Negotiation

    1. Bargaining and Argument-Based Negotiation: Some Preliminary Comparisons
      Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg, Peter McBurney
      Pages 176-191
    2. On the Generation of Bipolar Goals in Argumentation-Based Negotiation
      Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci
      Pages 192-207
    3. A Bayes Net Approach to Argumentation Based Negotiation
      Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen
      Pages 208-222
    4. Negotiation Among DDeLP Agents
      Fernando A. Tohmé, Guillermo R. Simari
      Pages 223-233

  6. Strategic Issues

    1. Is It Worth Arguing?
      Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings
      Pages 234-250
    2. When Is It Okay to Lie? A Simple Model of Contradiction in Agent-Based Dialogues
      Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Mathew Davies
      Pages 251-261
  7. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Keywords

MAS agent negotiation argumentation conversation protocols argumentation dialogues artificial intelligence formal reasoning intelligence knowledge representation linguistics multi-agent dialogues multi-agent system multi-agent systems multiagent systems semantics systems theory

Editors and affiliations

  • Iyad Rahwan
    • 1
  • Pavlos Moraïtis
    • 2
  • Chris Reed
    • 3
  1. 1.Faculty of InformaticsBritish University in DubaiDubauUnited Arab Emirates
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of CyprusNicosiaCyprus
  3. 3.Department of Applied ComputingUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/b105815
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-24526-1
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-32261-0
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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