On the Relevance of Utterances in Formal Inter-agent Dialogues
Work on argumentation-based dialogue has defined frameworks within which dialogues can be carried out, established protocols that govern dialogues, and studied different properties of dialogues. This work has established the space in which agents are perm
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Iyad Rahwan Simon Parsons Chris Reed (Eds.)
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems 4th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2007 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 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 Iyad Rahwan British University in Dubai, Faculty of Informatics P.O. Box 502216, Dubai, UAE E-mail: [email protected] Simon Parsons City University of New York, Brooklyn College Department of Computer and Information Science 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA E-mail: [email protected] Chris Reed University of Dundee, Department of Applied Computing Dundee DD1 4HN, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008923358
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
0302-9743 3-540-78914-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-78914-7 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 singl
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