Argumentation in multi-agent systems : third international workshop, ArgMAS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 : revised selected and invited papers

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. Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and logistics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

The volume opens with an original state-of-the-art survey paper presenting the current research and offering a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of this rapidly evolving area. The 11 revised articles that follow were carefully reviewed and selected from the most significant workshop contributions, augmented with papers from the AAMAS 2006 main conference, as well as from ECAI 2006, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Nicolas Maudet and Simon Parsons and Iyad RahwanTaro Fukumoto and Hajime SawamuraSantiago Ontanon and Enric PlazaSoren Holbech Nielsen and Simon ParsonsIyad Rahwan and Leila AmgoudPeter Harvey and Chee Fon Chang and Aditya GhoseNishan C. Karunatillake and Nicholas R. Jennings and Iyad Rahwan and Sarvapali D. RamchurnLeila Amgoud and Nabil HameurlainMohamed Mbarki and Jamal Bentahar and Bernard MoulinNir Oren and Timothy J. Norman and Alun PreeceSarvapali D. Ramchurn and Carles Sierra and Lluis Godo and Nicholas R. JenningsPhilippe Pasquier and Iyad Rahwan and Frank Dignum and Liz Sonenberg

Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Context and Recent Developments	p. 1
Part I Foundations and Explorations
Argumentation-Based Learning	p. 17
Arguments and Counterexamples in Case-Based Joint Deliberation	p. 36
A Generalization of Dung's Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments	p. 54
An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning	p. 74
Support-Based Distributed Search: A New Approach for Multiagent Constraint Processing	p. 91
Managing Social Influences Through Argumentation-Based Negotiation	p. 107
Part II Strategic Issues
An Argumentation-Based Approach for Dialog Move Selection	p. 128
Specification and Complexity of Strategic-Based Reasoning Using Argumentation	p. 142
Information Based Argumentation Heuristics	p. 161
Negotiating Using Rewards	p. 175
Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory: Preliminary Report	p. 193
Author Index	p. 211

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