Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. It has made a solid contribution to the practice of multiagent dialogues. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems held in Hakodate, Japan, as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Context and Recent Developments.- Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Context and Recent Developments.- I: Foundations and Explorations.- Argumentation-Based Learning.- Arguments and Counterexamples in Case-Based Joint Deliberation.- A Generalization of Dung's Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments.- An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning.- Support-Based Distributed Search: A New Approach for Multiagent Constraint Processing.- Managing Social Influences Through Argumentation-Based Negotiation.- II: Strategic Issues.- An Argumentation-Based Approach for Dialog Move Selection.- Specification and Complexity of Strategic-Based Reasoning Using Argumentation.- Information Based Argumentation Heuristics.- Negotiating Using Rewards.- Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory: Preliminary Report.