Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation
Artificial Intelligence
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
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ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
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ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Computational Dialectics for Argument-Based Agent Systems
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Properties and Complexity in Feasible Logic-Based Argumentation for Electronic Commerce
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STRATUM: A METHODOLOGY FOR DESIGNING HEURISTIC AGENT NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES
Applied Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence
Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
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Artificial Intelligence Review
OAR: a formal framework for multi-agent negotiation
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Solving weighted argumentation frameworks with soft constraints
CSCLP'09 Proceedings of the 14th Annual ERCIM international conference on Constraint solving and constraint logic programming
ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
When agents communicate hypotheses in critical situations
DALT'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
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Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or justifications for their proposals for resolving conflicts, is an effective approach to resolve conflicts. Indeed, we are applying argumentation in some real-world multi-agent applications. However, a key problem in such applications is that a well-understood computational model of argumentation is currently missing, making it difficult to investigate convergence and scalability of argumentation techniques, and to understand and characterize different collaborative NVA strategies in a principled manner. To alleviate these difficulties, we present distributed constraint satisfaction problem (DCSP) as a computational model for investigating NVA. We model argumentation as constraint propagation in DCSP. This model enables us to study convergence properties of argumentation, and formulate and experimentally compare 16 different NVA strategies with different levels of agent cooperativeness towards others. One surprising result from our experiments is that maximizing cooperativeness is not necessarily the best strategy even in a completely cooperative environment. The paper illustrates the usefulness of these results in applying NVA to multi-agent systems, as well as to DCSP systems in general.