Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Third International Workshop, A
Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. It has made a solid contribution to the practice of multiagent dialogues. Application domains include: legal disputes, bu
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Nicolas Maudet Simon Parsons Iyad Rahwan (Eds.)
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Nicolas Maudet Université Paris-Dauphine LAMSADE 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France E-mail: [email protected] Simon Parsons City University of New York Brooklyn College Department of Computer & Information Science 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA E-mail: [email protected] Iyad Rahwan The British University in Dubai Institute of Informatics P.O. Box 502216, Dubai, UAE E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937617
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, H.5.2-3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This volume presents the recent developments of the growing area of research taking place at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. Argumentation can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion. 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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