Strategic Agent Communication: An Argumentation-Driven Approach

  • Authors:

  • Jamal Bentahar;Mohamed Mbarki;John-Jules Ch. Meyer;Bernard Moulin

  • Affiliations:

  • Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Canada;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Canada;Department of Information and Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI
  • Year:
  • 2008

  • Research directions in agent communication

    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems

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Abstract

This paper proposes a formal framework for agent communication where agents can reason about their goals using strategic reasoning. This reasoning is argumentation-based and enables agents to generate a set of strategic goals depending on a set of constraints. Sub-goals are generated using this reasoning and they can be cancelled or substituted for alternatives during the dialogue progress. An original characteristic of this framework is that agents can use this strategic reasoning together with a tactic reasoning to persist in the achievement of their goals by considering alternatives depending on a set of constraints. Tactic reasoning is responsible of selecting the communicative acts to perform in order to realize the strategic goals. Some constraints are fixed when the conversation starts and others during the dialogue progress. The paper also discusses the computational complexity of such a reasoning.