A Dialogue Mechanism for Public Argumentation Using Conversation Policies

  • Authors:

  • Yuqing Tang;Simon Parsons

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA NY 10016;Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA NY 10016 and Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New Yo ...

  • Venue:
  • Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a flexible dialogue mechanism through which a set of agents can establish a coherent set of public beliefs. Flexibility and coherence are achieved by decomposing the dialogue mechanism into two parts, a backbone protocol and a set of conversation policies. The backbone protocol maintains the set of arguments put forward by the agents, and each agent uses a pre-agreed argumentation theory to extract a set of public beliefs from this set of arguments. The flexibility is achieved by distributing the other functions of the dialogue mechanism among a set of conversation policies, some of which are public and some of which are private to each agent.