Capturing the behaviour of inter-agent dialogues

DIEGO C. MARTÍNEZ; ALEJANDRO J. GARCÍA

Neuquén, Argentina

Workshop; VI Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación WICC 2004; 2004

Red de Universidades Nacionales con Carreras en Informática - Universidad Nacional del Comahue

According to american philosopher Douglas Walton, dialogues can be classified in negotiation, where there is a conflict of interests, persuasion where there is a conflict of opinion or beliefs, indagation where there is a need for an explanation or proof of some proposition, deliberation or coordination where there is a need to coordinate goals and actions, and one special kind of dialogue called eristic based on personal conflicts. Except the last one, all this dialogues may exist in multi-agents systems as part of social activities among agents. We present an abstract framework for modelling dialogues between agents. The examples shown in this work are a subclass of persuasion dialogues, where agents take turns to enunciate arguments.