Coordination through Inductive Meaning Negotiation

Authors:
Alessandro Agostini
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, I-38100, Italy. Email: agostini@dit.unitn.it
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper is on negotiation, precisely on the negotiation of meaning. We advance and discuss a formal paradigm of coordination and variants thereof, wherein meaning negotiation plays a major role in the process of convergence to a common agreement. Our model engages a kind of pairwise, model-theoretic coordination between knowledge-based agents, eventually able to communicate the complete & local meaning of their beliefs by expressions taken from the literals of a common first-order language. We focus on the framework of inductive inference---sometimes called “formal learning theory,” and argue that it offers a fresh and rigorous perspective on many current debates in Artificial Intelligence in the context of multiple agents in interaction.