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Revisiting the Delphi Method for Agents

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Research on agent interaction has attracted the attention of agent researchers for a long time. This paper revisits an old work to find uses of an argumentation protocol which borrows from social sciences to raise agreements among several agents. In this protocol, several agents discuss and provide a conclusion after some rounds of mutual information exchange. The work is reusing INGENIAS methodology to model and deploy the examples and illustrate benefits of this protocol proposal. It also analyses the requirements of this protocol for its application.

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge support from the project “SOCIAL AMBIENT ASSISTING LIVING - METHODS (SociAAL)”, supported by Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness, with grant TIN2011-28335-C02-01 and by the Programa de Creación y Consolidación de Grupos de Investigación UCM-Banco Santander, call GR3/14, for the group number 921354 (GRASIA group).

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    Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz & Ruben Fuentes Fernandez

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  1. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  2. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  3. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University, Poznan, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  5. Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  6. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, CALDAS, Colombia

    Nestor Darío Duque Méndez

  7. Lab. Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Lisbon, Portugal

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  8. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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Gomez-Sanz, J.J., Fernandez, R.F. (2015). Revisiting the Delphi Method for Agents. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_32

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