Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Maudet, Nicolas (Editor), Parsons, Simon (Editor), Rahwan, Iyad (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4766
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Language Translation and Linguistics.

Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. It has made a solid contribution to the practice of multiagent dialogues. Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation...

Table of Contents:

• Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Context and Recent Developments
• Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Context and Recent Developments
• I: Foundations and Explorations
• Argumentation-Based Learning
• Arguments and Counterexamples in Case-Based Joint Deliberation
• A Generalization of Dung’s Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments
• An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning
• Support-Based Distributed Search: A New Approach for Multiagent Constraint Processing
• Managing Social Influences Through Argumentation-Based Negotiation
• II: Strategic Issues
• An Argumentation-Based Approach for Dialog Move Selection
• Specification and Complexity of Strategic-Based Reasoning Using Argumentation
• Information Based Argumentation Heuristics
• Negotiating Using Rewards
• Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory: Preliminary Report.