The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

McBurney, Peter; Hitchcock, David; Parsons, Simon

doi:10.1002/int.20191

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“…Our approach is necessary when agents have incomplete desires, as well as incomplete knowledge. Hitchcock, McBurney, and Parsons (2001) and McBurney, Hitchcock, and Parsons (2007) propose deliberation dialogue frameworks, for example, DDF (McBurney et al, 2007), equipped with fundamental elements for deliberation dialogues such as locutions, commitments, and termination. Kok et al (2010) give an argumentation framework for deliberation dialogue taking into account agent's preference.…”

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Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†

Kido

Cerutti

2015

Argument & Computation

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Desire conflicts arise in several real-world contexts. In this paper, we propose a mixed deliberation dialogue for reconciliation. A mixed deliberation dialogue is defined as a combination of forward and backward deliberation dialogues with respective goals which are subordinate and superordinate desires of a given desire. This research and the introduction of mixed deliberation dialogue have been motivated by Kowalski and Toni's reconciliatory scenario. We show that an instantiation of a mixed deliberation dialogue implements key parts of Kowalski and Toni's reconciliatory solution. We also prove the correctness of mixed deliberation dialogues.

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Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†

Kido

Cerutti

2015

Argument & Computation

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“…McBurney et al presented a formal framework for agent deliberation dialogues-dialogues about what to do in some situationin [25]. Atkinson et al [6] proposed an argumentation scheme and associated critical questions for proposals over actions, which has been influential in later work.…”

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Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions

Black

McBurney

Zschaler

2014

Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation

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Abstract. Software design is an important creative step in the engineering of software systems, yet we know surprisingly little about how humans actually do it. While it has been argued before that there is a need for formal frameworks to help capture design dialogues in a format amenable to analysis, there is almost no work that actually attempts to do so. In this paper, we take a first step in this direction by exploring the application of concepts from agent dialogues to the description of actual design dialogues between human software designers. We have found that this can be done in principle and present a set of dialogue moves that we have found useful in the coding of an example dialogue. Through this formulation of the dialogue, we were able to identify some interesting patterns of moves and dialogue structures. More importantly, we believe that such a representation of design dialogues provides a good basis for a better understanding of how designers interact.

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“…This paper shows a methodology to generate scenarios that accomodate for argumentation with structured arguments while strongly reflecting the characteristics of deliberation dialogue type as identified from the existing literature on argumentation-based dialogues [1,4,5]:…”

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A Methodology for the Generation of Multi-agent Argumentation Dialogue Scenarios

Kok

Meyer

Oostendorp

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Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract. Increasingly research into the uses of argumentation in multiagent dialogues takes an experimental approach. Such studies explore how agents can successfully employ argumentation besides the best and worst case situations of formal analysis. While a vital part in these experiments is influenced by the scenarios from which dialogues are generated, there is very little research on how these can be generated in a meaningful way, respecting the characteristics of the underlying dialogue problem. This paper proposes, by means of an example system for deliberation dialogues, a methodology for the construction and evaluation of a scenario generation process. It is shown how scenarios can accomodate argumentation with structured arguments and how it is tested whether the generated scenarios are interesting for experimentation.

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The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

Cited by 111 publications

References 48 publications

Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†

Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†

Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions

A Methodology for the Generation of Multi-agent Argumentation Dialogue Scenarios

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The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

Cited by 111 publications

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Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation†

Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation†

Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions

A Methodology for the Generation of Multi-agent Argumentation Dialogue Scenarios

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Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†

Formal reconciliatory dialogue based on shift from forward to backward deliberation^†