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Argumentation as distributed constraint satisfaction: applications and results

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Author	Jung, Hyuckchul Kulkarni, Shriniwas Tambe, Milind
Abstract	Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or justifications for their proposals for resolving conflicts, is an effective approach to resolve conflicts. Indeed, we are applying argumentation in some real-world multi-agent applications. However, a key problem in such applications is that a well-understood computational model of argumentation is currently missing, making it difficult to investigate convergence and scalability of argumentation techniques, and to understand and characterize different collaborative NVA strategies in a principled manner. To alleviate these difficulties, we present distributed constraint satisfaction problem (DCSP) as a computational model for investigating NVA. We model argumentation as constraint propagation in DCSP. This model enables us to study convergence properties of argumentation, and formulate and experimentally compare 16 different NVA strategies with different levels of agent cooperativeness towards others. One surprising result from our experiments is that maximizing cooperativeness is not necessarily the best strategy even in a completely cooperative environment. The paper illustrates the usefulness of these results in applying NVA to multi-agent systems, as well as to DCSP systems in general.
Starting Page	324
Ending Page	331
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	158113326X
DOI	10.1145/375735.376322
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2001-05-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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