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New Types of Inter-agent Dialogues

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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2005)

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Much work in the area of argumentation-based dialogues between agents has been based on the influential taxonomy of dialogue types developed by Walton and Krabbe. In this paper we re-examine the Walton and Krabbe framework, concentrating on the preconditions for different types of dialogue and analyzing them in a systematic way. Doing so identifies a number of new kinds of dialogue missing from the framework. We discuss some of the more interesting of these and develop protocols for them.

This paper is a modified version of E. Cogan, S. Parsons, and P. McBurney. What kind of argument are we going to have today? In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, and M. Wooldridge, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 544-551. ACM Press, 2005.

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  1. Deptartment of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA

    Eva Cogan & Simon Parsons

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Peter McBurney

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  1. Department of Computer & Information Science Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, 11210, NY, USA

    Simon Parsons

  2. LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, 75775, Paris Cedex 16, France

    Nicolas Maudet

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Paris Descartes University,, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    Pavlos Moraitis

  4. Faculty of Informatics, British University in Dubai, P.O. Box 502216, Dubau, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

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Cogan, E., Parsons, S., McBurney, P. (2006). New Types of Inter-agent Dialogues. In: Parsons, S., Maudet, N., Moraitis, P., Rahwan, I. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11794578_10

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