Arguing and negotiating in the presence of social influences
Arguing and negotiating in the presence of social influences
When agents operate in a society with incomplete information and with diverse and conflicting influences, they may, in certain instances, lack the knowledge, the motivation and/or the capacity to enact all their commitments. However, to function as a coherent society it is important for these agents to have a means to resolve such conflicts and to come to a mutual understanding about their actions. To this end, argumentation-based negotiation provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounters, agents require four fundamental capabilities; a schema to reason in a social context, a mechanism to identify a suitable set of arguments, a language and a protocol to exchange these arguments, and a decision making functionality to generate such dialogues. This paper presents formulations of all of these capabilities and proposes a coherent framework that allows agents to argue, negotiate, and, thereby, resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society.
Argumentation-based Negotiation, Conflict Resolution.
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Karunatillake, N. C.
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Jennings, N. R.
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Rahwan, I.
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Norman, Timothy
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2005
Karunatillake, N. C.
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Jennings, N. R.
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Karunatillake, N. C., Jennings, N. R., Rahwan, I. and Norman, Timothy
(2005)
Arguing and negotiating in the presence of social influences.
4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS’05), Budapest, Hungary.
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When agents operate in a society with incomplete information and with diverse and conflicting influences, they may, in certain instances, lack the knowledge, the motivation and/or the capacity to enact all their commitments. However, to function as a coherent society it is important for these agents to have a means to resolve such conflicts and to come to a mutual understanding about their actions. To this end, argumentation-based negotiation provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounters, agents require four fundamental capabilities; a schema to reason in a social context, a mechanism to identify a suitable set of arguments, a language and a protocol to exchange these arguments, and a decision making functionality to generate such dialogues. This paper presents formulations of all of these capabilities and proposes a coherent framework that allows agents to argue, negotiate, and, thereby, resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society.
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Published date: 2005
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4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS’05), Budapest, Hungary, 2005-01-01
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Argumentation-based Negotiation, Conflict Resolution.
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260918
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N. C. Karunatillake
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N. R. Jennings
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I. Rahwan
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