A Structural Synthesis System for Argument Protocol from High-Level Descriptions

As web service choreography matures, there is greater demand for multi-agent protocols to support argument and argumentation. There is not, however a single canonical argumentation protocol. Instead we find many different styles of argumentation depending on the contest for service interaction. This offers a need for rapid protocol syntheses. In this paper we propose a high level control flow specification language for designers to build interaction protocols by reusing Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC)-argumentation patterns thus accelerating the construction process and reducing manual effort. Our tool receives as input a Dialogue Interaction Diagram (DID) and returns the LCC protocol generated by LCC-Argument patterns. We illustrate our proposal with a persuasion dialogue use-case.