The ability to build arguments that express thoughts is crucial for intelligent interactions
among human beings. Thus, argumentation techniques have been applied for years in …

The rise of the Internet and the growth of distributed computing have led to a major paradigm
shift in software engineering and computer science. Until recently, the notion of computation …

Increasingly, software engineering involves open systems consisting of autonomous and
heterogeneous participants or agents who carry out loosely coupled interactions …

We build on recent work on argumentation frameworks for generating desires and plans. We
provide a rich instantiation of Dung's abstract argumentation framework for (i) generating …

This chapter gives an overview of the history of formal argumentation in terms of a distinction
between argumentation-based inference and argumentation-based dialogue. Systems for …

We present a dialogue system that allows agents to exchange arguments in order to come to
an agreement on how to act. When selecting arguments to assert, an agent uses a model of …

This paper presents the results of a user study in which the impact of sharing decision
making in a human-robot team was measured. In the experiments outlined here, a human …

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 …

The distinction between action persuasion dialogues and deliberation dialogues is not
always obvious at first sight. In this paper, we provide a characterisation of both types of …

Agents engage in deliberation dialogues to collectively decide on a course of action. To
solve conflicts of opinion that arise, they can question claims and supply arguments. Existing …