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Argumentation and Artifact for Dialogue Support

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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2008)

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Intelligent and autonomous software agents may engage in dialogue and argument with one another, and much recent research has considered protocols, architectures and frameworks for this. Just as with human dialogues, such agent dialogues may be facilitated by the presence of a mediator, able to summarise different positions, identify common assumptions and inconsistencies, and make appropriate interventions in the dialogue. Drawing on the theory of co-ordination artifacts in multi-agent systems, we propose a formal framework to explicitly represent the functions of a mediator artifact. We then describe an implementation of this framework using the TuCS oN coordination infrastructure for MAS, where the mediator artifact is realised by a tuple centre—a programmable tuple space.

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  1. Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Enrico Oliva, Mirko Viroli & Andrea Omicini

  2. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Peter McBurney

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, British University in Dubai, P.O. Box, 502216, Dubau, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Paris Descartes University, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    Pavlos Moraitis

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Oliva, E., Viroli, M., Omicini, A., McBurney, P. (2009). Argumentation and Artifact for Dialogue Support. In: Rahwan, I., Moraitis, P. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5384. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00207-6_7

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