Commitment-Based Policies in Persuasion Dialogues with Defeasible Beliefs

• Published in: Agent Communication II pp. 243 - 257
• Main Authors: Letia, Ioan Alfred, Vartic, Raluca
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: agent; Applied sciences; argumentation; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Exact sciences and technology; protocol; Software; Context; Belief; Communication process; Multiagent system; Attitude; Modeling; Observable

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...