On the outcomes of formal inter-agent dialogues
Author(s) -
Simon Parsons,
Michael Wooldridge,
Leïla Amgoud
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
citeseer x (the pennsylvania state university)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISBN - 1-58113-683-8
DOI - 10.1145/860575.860674
Subject(s) - argumentation theory , mechanism (biology) , computer science , multi agent system , autonomous agent , epistemology , artificial intelligence , philosophy
This paper studies argumentation-based dialogues between agents. It takes a previously defined system by which agents can trade arguments and examines the outcomes of the dialogues this system permits. In addition to providing a first characterisation of such outcomes, the paper also investigates the extent to which outcomes are dependent on tactical play by the agents, and arguing that this violates principles of mechanism design, identifies how to prevent tactics having an effect.
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