Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010 Revised, Selected and Invited Papers

✍ Scribed by David Hitchcock (auth.), Peter McBurney, Iyad Rahwan, Simon Parsons (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6614
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMas 2010, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2010.

The 14 revised full papers taken from ArgMAS 2010 were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of revision. Also included are 4 invited papers based on presentations on argumentation at the AAMAS 2010 main conference. All together the 18 papers included in the book give a representative overview on current research on argumentation in multi-agent systems. The papers are organized in topical sections on practical reasoning and argument about action, applications, and theoretical aspects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Instrumental Rationality....Pages 1-11
Agreeing What to Do....Pages 12-30
A Formal Argumentation Framework for Deliberation Dialogues....Pages 31-48
Empirical Argumentation: Integrating Induction and Argumentation in MAS....Pages 49-67
Arguing about Preferences and Decisions....Pages 68-85
On the Benefits of Argumentation-Derived Evidence in Learning Policies....Pages 86-104
Argumentative Alternating Offers....Pages 105-122
On a Computational Argumentation Framework for Agent Societies....Pages 123-140
Towards a Dialectical Approach for Conversational Agents in Selling Situations....Pages 141-158
Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper....Pages 159-170
An Argument-Based Multi-agent System for Information Integration....Pages 171-189
Argumentation in the View of Modal Logic....Pages 190-208
Towards Pragmatic Argumentative Agents within a Fuzzy Description Logic Framework....Pages 209-227
Dynamic Argumentation in Abstract Dialogue Frameworks....Pages 228-247
Argumentation System Allowing Suspend/Resume of an Argumentation Line....Pages 248-267
Computing Argumentation in Polynomial Number of BDD Operations: A Preliminary Report....Pages 268-285
On Strategic Argument Selection in Structured Argumentation Systems....Pages 286-305
Preference-Based Argumentation Capturing Prioritized Logic Programming....Pages 306-325
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

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