Abstract
The notion of agent’s goals is crucial in negotiation dialogues. In fact, during a negotiation, each agent tries to make and to accept the offers which satisfy its own goals. Works on negotiation suppose that an agent has a set of fixed goals to pursue. However, it is not shown how these goals are computed and chosen by the agent. Moreover, these works handle one kind of goals: the ones that an agent wants to achieve.
Recent studies on psychology claim that goals are bipolar and there are at least two kinds of goals: the positive goals representing what the agent wants to achieve and the negative goals representing what the agent rejects. In this paper, we present an argumentation-based framework which generates the goals of an agent. The framework returns three categories of goals: the positive goals, the negative ones and finally the goals in abeyance.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Amgoud, L.: A formal framework for handling conflicting desires. In: Nielsen, T.D., Zhang, N.L. (eds.) ECSQARU 2003. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 2711, pp. 552–563. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Amgoud, L., Parsons, S., Maudet, N.: Arguments, dialogue, and negotiation. In: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000), pp. 338–342 (2000)
Benferhat, S., Dubois, D., Kaci, S., Prade, H.: Bipolar representation and fusion of preferences in the possibilistic logic framework. In: Proceedings of the eighth International Confenrence on Principle of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2002), pp. 158–169 (2002)
Borod, J.: The neuropsychology of emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2000)
Cacioppo, J., Bernston, G.: The affect system: Architecture and operating characteristics. Current Directions in Psychological Science 8(5), 133–137 (1999)
Cacioppo, J., Gardner, W., Bernston, G.: Beyond bipolar conceptualizations and measures: The case of attitudes and evaluative space. Personality and Social Psychology Review 1(1), 3–25 (1997)
Dung, P.M.: On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games. Artificial Intelligence 77, 321–357 (1995)
Kaci, S., Prade, H.: Bipolar goals. A possibilistic logic characterization of preferred choices. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Local Computation for Logics and Uncertainty, in conjunction with ECAI 2004 (2004)
Kraus, S., Sycara, K., Evenchik, A.: Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence 104 (1998)
Luo, X., Jennings, N., Shadbolt, N., fung Leung, H., man Lee, J.H.: A fuzzy constraint based model for bilateral, multi-issue negotiations in semi-competitive environments. Artificial Intelligence 148(1-2), 53–102 (2003)
Rahwan, I., Sonenberg, L., Dignum, F.: Towards interest-based negotiation. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), pp. 773–780 (2003)
Rolls, E.: Precis of “brain and emotion”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(2), 177–234 (2000)
Sierra, C., Jennings, N., Noriega, P., Parsons, S.: A framework for argumentation-based negotiation. In: Rao, A., Singh, M.P., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds.) ATAL 1997. LNCS, vol. 1365, pp. 167–182. Springer, Heidelberg (1998)
Thomason, R.: Desires and defaults: A framework for planning with inferred goals. In: Proceedings of the seventh International Confenrence on Principle of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2000), pp. 702–713 (2000)
Wong, O., Lau, R.: Possibilistic reasoning for intelligent payment agents. In: Proceedings of the second Workshop on AI in Electronic Commerce AIEC, pp. 170–180 (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Amgoud, L., Kaci, S. (2005). On the Generation of Bipolar Goals in Argumentation-Based Negotiation. In: Rahwan, I., Moraïtis, P., Reed, C. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32261-0_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32261-0_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-24526-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-32261-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)