Commitment-Based Policies in Persuasion Dialogues with Defeasible Beliefs
We advance a model to express the preconditions for engaging in dialogues in terms of the agents’ mental attitudes, in a defeasible logic context (beliefs are divided into strict and defeasible ones). Then, we give a protocol for the persuasion dialogue between two agents, which provides the means o...
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Published in | Agent Communication II pp. 243 - 257 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Book Chapter Conference Proceeding |
Language | English |
Published |
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2006
Springer |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | We advance a model to express the preconditions for engaging in dialogues in terms of the agents’ mental attitudes, in a defeasible logic context (beliefs are divided into strict and defeasible ones). Then, we give a protocol for the persuasion dialogue between two agents, which provides the means of identifying both false premises and logical fallacies. Communicative acts are organized in a hierarchy, and relations between speech acts and social commitments are expressed via policies involving operations on social commitments. Including commitments renders an observable behaviour of the communicating agents. |
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ISBN: | 3540681426 9783540681427 |
ISSN: | 0302-9743 1611-3349 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-540-68143-4_17 |