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Agent Dialogues with Conflicting Preferences

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Intelligent Agents VIII (ATAL 2001)

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An increasing number of software applications are being conceived, designed, and implemented using the notion of autonomous agents. These agents need to communicate in order to resolve differences of opinion and conflicts of interests, some of which result from differences in preferences. Hence the agents need the ability to engage in dialogues that can handle these communications while taking the differences in preferences into account. In this paper we present a general framework of dialogue where several agents can fulfill the above goals.

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  1. IRIT-UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Leila Amgoud

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Simon Parsons

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Milind Tambe

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Amgoud, L., Parsons, S. (2002). Agent Dialogues with Conflicting Preferences. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_14

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