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Part III: Negotiation

Practical Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in Rational Argument-Based Negotiation

Michael RovatsosContact Information, Iyad RahwanContact Information, Felix FischerContact Information and Gerhard WeissContact Information

(1)  School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK
(2)  Institute of Informatics, The British University in Dubai, P.O. Box 502216, Dubai, UAE
(3)  Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
Abstract
Recent years have seen an increasing interest of multiagent system research in employing the theory of argumentation for the development of communication protocols. While significant progress has been made in formalising argument-based communication, (possibly adaptive) agent-level argumentation strategies as a practical integration of rational agent reasoning and inter-agent argumentation dialogues have received fairly little attention. In this paper we propose the use of the InFFrA framework in argument-based negotiation. This framework allows for a strategic and adaptive communication to achieve private goals within the limits of bounded rationality in open argumentation communities. The feasibility of the approach is illustrated in an agent-based web linkage scenario, showing that its performance is comparable to that of simple proposal-based negotiation while accommodating much stricter constraints regarding “what can be said” like those used in argumentation.

Contact Information Michael Rovatsos
Email: mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk

Contact Information Iyad Rahwan
Email: iyad.rahwan@buid.ac.ae

Contact Information Felix Fischer
Email: fischerf@cs.tum.edu

Contact Information Gerhard Weiss
Email: weissg@cs.tum.edu
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