This paper addresses modality classification for multi-issue bargaining dialogues in order to model human-like negotiation behaviour and to efficiently compute negotiation strategies. We propose a modality annotation and classification scheme comprising semantically distinguishable categories applied reliably by humans and machines. Our classification of modality varieties is based on both the ...

The paper reports on the formal framework to design strategies for multi-issue non-symmetric meaning negotiations among software agents in a distributed information retrieval system. The advancements of the framework are the following. A resulting strategy compares the contexts of two background domain theories not concept by concept, but the whole context (conceptual graph) to the other contex...

Our thesis is that before Web-based agents can negotiate meanings, they need to agree on high-level protocols based on logical systems. The Semantic Web community is setting the stage for semantic interoperability among Web-based software agents by developing standard languages with well-defined semantics. But exactly how these languages might be used to negotiate meanings is an open question. ...