Games that agents play: A formal framework for dialogues between autonomous agents

Games That Agents Play: A Formal Framework for Dialogues between Autonomous Agents

Inter-agent Dialogues in Electronic Marketplaces

This paper presents an overall framework for carrying out different types of dialogues between intelligent and autonomous agents acting in an electronic marketplace. Such dialogues take place during various commercial transactions concerning requests and offers of products and services. The proposed dialogue framework has been adopted in the communication and collaboration protocols of an alrea...

Agent Ludens: Games for Agent Dialogues

By treating dialogues as abstract games, we are able to develop a logic-based formalism for modeling of dialogues between intelligent and autonomous software agents. Complex dialogues, including dialogues embedded in one another, can be represented in the formalism as sequences of moves in a combination of dialogue games. We show that our formalism can represent the different types of dialogue ...

The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

Deliberation dialogues occur when two or more participants seek to jointly agree an action or a course of action in some situation. We present the first formal framework for such dialogues, grounding it in a theory of deliberative reasoning from the philosophy of argumentation. We further fully articulate the locutions and rules of a formal dialogue game for this model, so as to specify a proto...

Argumentation and Artifacts for Negotiation Support

Negotiation is a central process in an agent society where autonomous agents have to cooperate in order to resolve conflicting interests and yet compete to divide limited resources. A direct dialogical exchange of information between agents usually leads to competitive forms of negotiation where the most powerful agents win. Alternatively, an intelligent mediated interaction may better achieve ...