On the generation of bipolar goals in argumentation-based negotiation

  • Authors:
  • Leila Amgoud;Souhila Kaci

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (I.R.I.T.), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France;Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (C.R.I.L.), IUT de Lens, Lens, France

  • Venue:
  • ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The notion of agent’s goals is crucial in negotiation dialogues. In fact, during a negotiation, each agent tries to make and to accept the offers which satisfy its own goals. Works on negotiation suppose that an agent has a set of fixed goals to pursue. However, it is not shown how these goals are computed and chosen by the agent. Moreover, these works handle one kind of goals: the ones that an agent wants to achieve. Recent studies on psychology claim that goals are bipolar and there are at least two kinds of goals: the positive goals representing what the agent wants to achieve and the negative goals representing what the agent rejects. In this paper, we present an argumentation-based framework which generates the goals of an agent. The framework returns three categories of goals: the positive goals, the negative ones and finally the goals in abeyance.