Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Fifth International Worksho
During the last decade Argumentation has been gaining importance within Artificial Intelligence especially in multi agent systems. Argumentation is a powerful mechanism for modelling the internal reasoning of an agent. It also provides tools for analysing
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Iyad Rahwan Pavlos Moraitis (Eds.)
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Fifth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2008 Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Iyad Rahwan British University in Dubai Faculty of Informatics Dubai, UAE and University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Scotland, UK E-mail: [email protected] Pavlos Moraitis Paris Descartes University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009920684
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, C.2.4, H.5.2-3, D.3.2, F.4.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-642-00206-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-00206-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
This volume presents the latest developments in the growing area of research at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. This area has grown tremendously with many papers appearing in the recent special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal on “Argumentation” and the special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems on “Argumentation Technologies.” Over the last few years, argumentation has been gaining increasing importance in multiagent systems, mainly as a vehicle for facilitating rational interaction (i.e., interaction which involves the giving and receiving of reasons). This is because argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. Argumentation has made solid contributions to the practice of multiagent dialogues. Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and logistics. A single agent may also use argumentation techniques to perform its individual reasoning because it needs to make dec
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