Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation
Artificial Intelligence
Communications of the ACM
WWW-based negotiation support: design, implementation, and use
Decision Support Systems
Developing multi-agent systems with a FIPA-compliant agent framework
Software—Practice & Experience
Modeling constraint-based negotiating agents
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Decision support systems: Directions for the next decade
An Architecture fro Argumentative Dialogue Planning
FAPR '96 Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning
Using a Reactive Planner as the Basis for a Dialogue Agent
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
An Efficient Argumentation Framework for Negtiating Autonomous Agents
MAAMAW '99 Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: MultiAgent System Engineering
A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Dialogues for Negotiation: Agent Varieties and Dialogue Sequences
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Agent-Mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: The language/action perspective
An agenda-based framework for multi-issue negotiation
Artificial Intelligence
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Sarcasm, Deception, and Stating the Obvious: Planning Dialogue without Speech Acts
Artificial Intelligence Review
Argumentation-based negotiation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Argumentation-based dialogues for deliberation
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Handling threats, rewards, and explanatory arguments in a unified setting: Research Articles
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Developing e-Negotiation support with a meta-modeling approach in a web services environment
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Planning with preferences using logic programming
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
Scheduling meetings through multi-agent negotiations
Decision Support Systems
A unified and general framework for argumentation-based negotiation
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
A Generic Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
g-BDI: A Graded Intensional Agent Model for Practical Reasoning
MDAI '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
Architectures for negotiating agents
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Bargaining and argument-based negotiation: some preliminary comparisons
ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Analysing the PDDL language for argumentation-based negotiation planning
ICCSA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
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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 negotiation starts, we have in mind what arguments we can utter, what opponent we can persuade, which negotiation can finish successfully and which cannot. Thus, we plan the negotiation, and in particular, the argumentation. This fact allows us to take decisions in advance and to start the negotiation more confidently. With this in mind, we claim that this planning can be exploited by an autonomous agent. Agents plan the actions that they should execute to achieve their goals. In these plans, some actions are under the agent's control, while some others are not. The latter must be negotiated with other agents. Negotiation is usually carried out during the plan execution. In our opinion, however, negotiation can be considered during the planning stage, as in real life. In this paper, we present a novel approach to integrate argumentation-based negotiation planning into the general planning process of an autonomous agent. This integration allows the agent to take key decisions in advance. We evaluated this proposal in a multiagent scenario by comparing the performance of agents that plan the argumentation and agents that do not. These evaluations demonstrated that performance improves when the argumentation is planned, specially, when the negotiation alternatives increase.