Negotiation is essential in settings where autonomous agents have conflicting interests and
a desire to cooperate. For this reason, mechanisms in which agents exchange potential …

Abstract Abduction in Logic Programming started in the late 80s, early 90s, in an attempt to
extend logic programming into a framework suitable for a variety of problems in Artificial …

This paper studies argumentation-based dialogues between agents. It defines a set of
locutions by which agents can trade arguments, a set of agent attitudes which relate what …

A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software
agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice …

The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or
deliberation dialogues; we focus on inquiry dialogues, which allow agents to collaborate in …

Dialogue is fundamental to argumentation, providing a dialectical basis for establishing
which arguments are acceptable. Argumentation can also be used as the basis for dialogue …

The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or
deliberation dialogues. We focus on inquiry dialogues that allow two agents to share …

The concept of an agent is increasingly used in contemporary software applications,
particularly those involving the Internet, autonomous systems, or cooperation. However, with …

Persuasive negotiation occurs when autonomous agents exchange proposals that are
backed up by rhetorical arguments (such as threats, rewards, or appeals). The role of such …

When we negotiate, the arguments uttered to persuade the opponent are not the result of an
isolated analysis, but of an integral view of the problem that we want to agree about. Before …