Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

Here are the latest developments in the growing area of research at the interface of argumentation theory and multiagent systems. Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analyzing sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents.

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Argumentation and Dialogue.- A General Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation.- On the Benefits of Exploiting Hierarchical Goals in Bilateral Automated Negotiation.- Co-argumentation Artifact for Agent Societies.- On the Relevance of Utterances in Formal Inter-agent Dialogues.- A Persuasion Dialog for Gaining Access to Information.- Towards Characterising Argumentation Based Dialogue in the Argument Interchange Format.- Argument-Based Reasoning.- Preferences and Assumption-Based Argumentation for Conflict-Free Normative Agents.- The Hedgehog and the Fox.- An Extended Value-Based Argumentation Framework for Ontology Mapping with Confidence Degrees.- Defeasible Argumentation Support for an Extended BDI Architecture.- Argumentation and Learning.- Arguing and Explaining Classifications.- An Argumentation-Based Framework for Deliberation in Multi-agent Systems.- A Hybrid Argumentation of Symbolic and Neural Net Argumentation (Part I).- A Hybrid Argumentation of Symbolic and Neural Net Argumentation (Part II).