Some preliminary steps towards a meta-theory for formal inter-agent dialogues

Authors:
Simon Parsons;Peter McBurney;Michael Wooldridge
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York, NY;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Venue:
ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper investigates the properties of argumentation-based dialogues between agents. It takes a previously defined system by which agents can trade arguments, and examines how different classes of protocols for this kind of interaction can have profoundly different outcomes. Studying such classes of protocol, rather than individual protocols as has been done previously, allows us to start to develop a meta-theory of this class of interactions.