Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems [electronic resource] : First International Workshop, ArgMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers / edited by Iyad Rahwan, Pavlos Moraïtis, Chris Reed.

Foundations of Dialogues -- Some Preliminary Steps Towards a Meta-theory for Formal Inter-agent Dialogues -- Towards a Formal and Implemented Model of Argumentation Schemes in Agent Communication -- Formal Dialectic Specification -- A Modal Semantics for an Argumentation-Based Pragmatics for Agent Communication -- Layered Strategies and Protocols for Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction -- Belief Revision -- Revising Beliefs Through Arguments: Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation and Belief Revision in MAS -- An Argument-Based Framework to Model an Agent’s Beliefs in a Dynamic Environment -- Argumentation in Bayesian Belief Networks -- Persuasion & Deliberation -- Specifying and Implementing a Persuasion Dialogue Game Using Commitments and Arguments -- A Dialogue Game Protocol for Multi-agent Argument over Proposals for Action -- A Denotational Semantics for Deliberation Dialogues -- Negotiation -- Bargaining and Argument-Based Negotiation: Some Preliminary Comparisons -- On the Generation of Bipolar Goals in Argumentation-Based Negotiation -- A Bayes Net Approach to Argumentation Based Negotiation -- Negotiation Among DDeLP Agents -- Strategic Issues -- Is It Worth Arguing? -- When Is It Okay to Lie? A Simple Model of Contradiction in Agent-Based Dialogues.

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and psychology (at least). Its techniques and results have found a wide range of applications in both t- oretical and practical branches of arti?cial intelligence and computer science. Several theories of argumentation with various semantics have been proposed in the literature. Multi-agent systems theory has picked up argument-inspired approaches and speci?cally argumentation-theoretic results from many di?erent areas. The community of researchers in argumentation and multi-agent systems is currently presented with a unique opportunity to integrate the various und- standings of argument into a coherent and core part of the functioning of - tonomouscomputationalsystems.Thebene?tsrangefromextendedsemanticsof arguments construed as relationships between epistemic atoms, through conv- sation protocols for argumentation with serendipitous information exchange, to models of dialectical practical reasoning, both intra- and inter-agent (and a m- ture of the two). In all these cases argumentation is used to structure knowledge representation, reasoning and agent interaction, and o?ers a potential means of better integrating these disparate problems.