On the 10th of May, I will be at the Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS) workshop, which is held as part of this year’s Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) conference. I will present the work from my accepted paper ‘A Formal Argumentation Framework for Deliberation Dialogues’, which was written together with Henry Prakken, Gerard Vreeswijk and John-Jules Meyer.
Agents engage in deliberation dialogues to collectively decide on a course of action. To solve conflicts of opinion that arise, they can question claims and supply arguments. Existing models fail to capture the interplay between the provided arguments as well as successively selecting a winner from the proposals. This paper introduces a general framework for agent deliberation dialogues that uses an explicit reply structure to produce coherent dialogues, guides in outcome selection and provide pointers for agent strategies.
Looking forward to going to Toronto, Canada!