Abstract
In this paper, we introduce an inquiry dialogue approach for supporting decision making in a smart environment setting. These inquiry dialogues have as topic either agreement atoms or agreement rules, which capture services in a smart environment. These services are provided and supported by three rational agents with different roles: Environment Agent, Activity Agent and Coach Agent. These three agents have different capabilities and represent different data sources; however, they have to collaborate in order to deliver services in a smart environment.
The knowledge base of each agent is captured by extended logic programs. Therefore, the construction of arguments is supported by the Well-Founded Semantics (WFS). The outcome of the inquiry dialogues is supported by well-known argumentation semantics.
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Notes
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This definition of an agreement rule extends our previous definition of agreement rules introduced in [9].
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By \(\mathcal{L}_P\), we denote the set of atoms in the language of \(P\).
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This argumentation engine can be download from: http://esteban-guerrero.tumblr.com/argengine.
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We are assuming that \(A\) has at least two participants.
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Due to lack of space, we omit the formal definition of the argumentation semantics. Please find their definitions in [2].
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Nieves, J.C., Lindgren, H. (2015). Deliberative Argumentation for Service Provision in Smart Environments. In: Bulling, N. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17130-2_27
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