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International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

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How Agents Alter Their Beliefs After an Argumentation-Based Dialogue

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In our previous work on dialogue games for agent interaction, an agent’s set of beliefs (Σ) and an agent’s “commitment store” (CS) — the set of locutions uttered by the agent — play a crucial role. The usual assumption made in this work is that the set of beliefs is static through the course of a dialogue, while the commitment store is dynamic. While the assumption of static beliefs is reasonable during the progress of the dialogue, it seems clear that some form of belief change is appropriate once a dialogue is complete. What form this change should take is our subject in this paper.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, NY, 11210, USA

    Simon Parsons & Elizabeth Sklar

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  1. Department of Computer & Information Science Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, 11210, NY, USA

    Simon Parsons

  2. LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, 75775, Paris Cedex 16, France

    Nicolas Maudet

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Paris Descartes University,, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    Pavlos Moraitis

  4. Faculty of Informatics, British University in Dubai, P.O. Box 502216, Dubau, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

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Parsons, S., Sklar, E. (2006). How Agents Alter Their Beliefs After an Argumentation-Based Dialogue. In: Parsons, S., Maudet, N., Moraitis, P., Rahwan, I. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11794578_19

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