Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
8th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
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Peter McBurney
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Dynamic Logic Framework for Abstract Argumentation: Adding and Removing Arguments
A dynamic framework, based on the Dynamic Logic of Propositional Assignments ( \(\mathsf {DL\text {-}PA}\) ),...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Direct Exchange Mechanisms for Option Pricing
This paper presents the design and simulation of direct exchange mechanisms for pricing European options. It extends McAfee’s single-unit double auction to multi-unit format, and then applies it for pricing op...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Networking and Information Diffusion in Automated Markets
To what extent do networks of influence between market traders impact upon their individual performance and the performance of the specialists in which they operate? Such a question underpins the content of th...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Arguments over Co-operative Plans
Autonomous planning agents that share a common goal should be able to propose, justify and share information about plans. To reach an agreement on the best plan, strategies for persuasion and negotiation could...
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Using Argumentation to Reason with and about Trust
Trust is an approach to managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely stud...
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What Are Models for?
In this paper I discuss some of the purposes and functions of building models, particularly agent-based models, and present a comprehensive list of these purposes and functions. Careful thought and attention i...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
7th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010 Revised, Selected and Invited Papers
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper
Trust is a mechanism for managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely stu...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
6th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Specialised Are Specialists? Generalisation Properties of Entries from the 2008 and 2009 TAC Market Design Competitions
Unlike the classic Trading Agent competition (tac), where participants enter trading strategies into a market, the tac Market Design Competition (cat) allows participants to create rules for their own double auct...
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Pre-processing Techniques for Anytime Coalition Structure Generation Algorithms
This paper is concerned with optimal coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems. For characteristic function game representations, we propose pre-processing techniques, presented in the form of filt...
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Integrating Data Mining and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
In this paper, we introduce an integration study which combines Data Mining (DM) and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). This study, as a new paradigm for DM/ABMS, is concerned with two approaches: (i)...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Structuring Dialogue between the People and Their Representatives
Conversations between citizens and their representatives may take a number of forms. In this paper, we consider one of these – letters between citizens and representatives – and explore the application of a we...
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Games That Agents Play: A Formal Framework for Dialogues between Autonomous Agents
We present a logic-based formalism for modeling ofdialogues between intelligent and autonomous software agents,building on a theory of abstract dialogue games which we present.The formalism enables representat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Chance Discovery Using Dialectical Argumentation
We propose the use of a dialectical argumentation formalism for chance discovery in domains where knowledge is distributed across a number of distinct knowledge-bases, as in a system of autonomous software age...
