A dialogue mechanism for public argumentation using conversation policies

Paper:

A dialogue mechanism for public argumentation using conversation policies

Appears:

7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a flexible dialogue mechanism through which a set of agents can establish a coherent set of public beliefs. Flexibility and coherence are achieved by decomposing the dialogue mechanism into two parts, a backbone protocol and a set of conversation policies. The backbone protocol maintains the set of arguments put forward by the agents, and each agent uses a pre-agreed argumentation theory to extract the set of public beliefs from the context. The flexibility is achieved by distributing the other functions of the dialogue mechanism among a set of conversation policies, some of which are public and some of which are private to each agent.

Keywords:

Argumentation, dialogue, protocol, conversation policy.

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