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A Framework for Deliberation and Negotiation among BDI Agents
Keywords:
Collaboration, Deliberation, Negotiation, Argumentation, Interaction Language, Interaction Protocol, Dialogue GamesAbstract
This work presents an interaction model among collaborative agents based on dialogues. For the specification we use a formalism, called Dialogue Games, which allows to describe the nature of the utterances available in each dialogue. We propose an interaction language which favors deliberation and argumentationbased negotiation among BDI agents. For each locution's specification we establish a set of preconditions, its meaning, the expected responses, and the modifications that it could produce. The interaction protocol and the interaction language as a whole can be used for specifying meaningful interaction between dialogical partners by following the rules of an individual dialogue.
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[4] Jennings, N. R., Parsons, S., Noriega, P., and Sierra, C. On argumentation-based negotiation. In Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (Boston, USA, 1998).
[5] Labrou, Y. Semantics for an Agent Communication Language. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland and Baltimore County, 1996.
[6] Levin, J. A., and Moore, J. A. Dialogue-games: Metacommuncation structures for natural language interaction. Cognitive Science 1, 4 (Oct. 1977), 395–420. (Also in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Alan H. Bond and Les Gasser, eds, pp. 385–397, Morgan Kaufmann, 1988.).
[7] Mcburney, P., Eijk, R. M. V., Parsons, S., and Amgoud, L. A dialogue game protocol for agent purchase negotiations. Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent
Systems 7, 3 (2003), 235–273.
[8] Parsons, S., Sierra, C., and Jennings, N. Agents that reason and negotiate by arguing. Journal of Logic and Computation 8, 3 (June 1998), 261–292.
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[13] Simari, and Loui. A mathematical treatment of defeasible reasoning and its implementation. AIJ: Artificial Intelligence 53 (1992).
[14] Walton, D. N., and Krabbe, E. C. W. Commitment in Dialogue: Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1995.
[15] Wooldridge, M. Intelligent agents. In Multiagent Systems A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, G. Weiss, Ed. MIT Press, 2000, pp. 27–77.
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2005-12-01
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“A Framework for Deliberation and Negotiation among BDI Agents”, JCS&T, vol. 5, no. 04, pp. p. 334–341, Dec. 2005, Accessed: Sep. 13, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/article/view/856
