Argumentation as distributed belief revision: Conflict resolution in decentralised co-operative multi-agent systems

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2001

Authors

malheiro, b (Author) Other; oliveira, e (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Pages: 205-218

10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2001

Porto, 17 December 2001 through 20 December 2001

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Authenticus ID: P-008-6VQ

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45329-6_22

Abstract (EN): Decentralised co-operative multi-agent systems are computational systems where conflicts are frequent due to the nature of the represented knowledge. Negotiation methodologies, in this case argumentation based negotiation methodologies, were developed and applied to solve unforeseeable and, therefore, unavoidable conflicts. The supporting computational model is a distributed belief revision system where argumentation plays the decisive role of revision. The distributed belief revision system detects, isolates and solves, whenever possible, the identified conflicts. The detection and isolation of the conflicts is automatically performed by the distributed consistency mechanism and the resolution of the conflict, or belief revision, is achieved via argumentation. We propose and describe two argumentation protocols intended to solve different types of identified information conflicts: context dependent and context independent conflicts. While the protocol for context dependent conflicts generates new consensual alternatives, the latter chooses to adopt the soundest, strongest argument presented. The paper shows the suitability of using argumentation as a distributed decentralised belief revision protocol to solve unavoidable conflicts. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14