Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 6th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers

✍ Scribed by Douglas Walton (auth.), Peter McBurney, Iyad Rahwan, Simon Parsons, Nicolas Maudet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6057
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009, in association with the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009). The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are organized in four topical sections on practical reasoning and argument about action; persuasion and negotiation; argumentation theory; and applications and emotions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogs....Pages 1-22
A Generative Dialogue System for Arguing about Plans in Situation Calculus....Pages 23-41
Dominant Decisions by Argumentation Agents....Pages 42-59
A Model for Integrating Dialogue and the Execution of Joint Plans....Pages 60-78
Practical Reasoning Using Values....Pages 79-93
Strategic Argumentation in Rigorous Persuasion Dialogue....Pages 94-113
Assumption-Based Argumentation for the Minimal Concession Strategy....Pages 114-133
Subjective Effectiveness in Agent-to-Human Negotiation: A Frame x Personality Account....Pages 134-149
Dynamics in Argumentation with Single Extensions: Attack Refinement and the Grounded Extension (Extended Version)....Pages 150-159
Arguing Using Opponent Models....Pages 160-174
Realizing Argumentation in Multi-agent Systems Using Defeasible Logic Programming....Pages 175-194
Computing Abductive Argumentation in Answer Set Programming....Pages 195-215
Multi-Party Argument from Experience....Pages 216-235
Using Ontology Modularization for Efficient Negotiation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS....Pages 236-255
Applying Dialogue Games to Manage Recommendation in Social Networks....Pages 256-272
Emotions in Rational Decision Making....Pages 273-291
Using Personality Types to Support Argumentation....Pages 292-304
Comparing Argumentation Frameworks for Composite Ontology Matching....Pages 305-320
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction