Arguing and negotiating in the presence of social influences
OA Location
Author(s)
Karunatillake, NC
Jennings, NR
Rahwan, I
Norman, TJ
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
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.
Date Issued
2005
Citation
Proceedings of 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS’05), 2005, pp.223-235
Start Page
223
End Page
235
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS’05)
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/260918/
Source
4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS?05)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
argumentation-based negotiation
conflict resolution
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
08 Information And Computing Sciences
Notes
keywords: Argumentation-based Negotiation, Conflict Resolution.
Publication Status
Unpublished