Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 4th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4946)

This volume presents the latest developments in the growing area of research at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and logistics. The papers presented in this book constitute the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. A number of invited revised papers on argumentation in MAS are also included, from both AAMAS 2007 and AAAI 2007, the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The book has been divided into three parts, each addressing an important problem in argumentation and multiagent systems. The first two parts focus on issues pertaining to dialogue and on using argumentation to automate or support various single agent reasoning tasks. The third part addresses an exciting new area in argumentation research, namely, the relationship between models of argumentation and models of learning. This volume presents the latest developments in the growing area of research at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and logistics. The papers presented in this book constitute the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. A number of invited revised papers on argumentation in MAS are also included, from both AAMAS 2007 and AAAI 2007, the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The book has been divided into three parts, each addressing an important problem in argumentation and multiagent systems. The first two parts focus on issues pertaining to dialogue and on using argumentation to automate or support various single agent reasoning tasks. The third part addresses an exciting new area in argumentation research, namely, the relationship between models of argumentation and models of learning Front Matter....Pages - A General Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation....Pages 1-17 On the Benefits of Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation....Pages 18-30 Co-argumentation Artifact for Agent Societies....Pages 31-46 On the Relevance of Utterances in Formal Inter-agent Dialogues....Pages 47-62 A Persuasion Dialog for Gaining Access to Information....Pages 63-79 Towards Characterising Argumentation Based Dialogue in the Argument Interchange Format....Pages 80-93 Preferences and Assumption-Based Argumentation for Conflict-Free Normative Agents....Pages 94-113 The Hedgehog and the Fox....Pages 114-131 An Extended Value-Based Argumentation Framework for Ontology Mapping with Confidence Degrees....Pages 132-144 Defeasible Argumentation Support for an Extended BDI Architecture....Pages 145-163 Arguing and Explaining Classifications....Pages 164-177 An Argumentation-Based Framework for Deliberation in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 178-196 A Hybrid Argumentation of Symbolic and Neural Net Argumentation (Part I)....Pages 197-215 A Hybrid Argumentation of Symbolic and Neural Net Argumentation (Part II)....Pages 216-233 Back Matter....Pages - Here are the latest developments in the growing area of research at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents.