Trust and honour in information-based agency

Abstract

An argumentation based negotiation model is supported by information theory. Argumentative dialogues change the models of agents with respect to ongoing relationships between them. Trust and Honour are key components. Trust measures expected deviations of behaviour in the execution of commitments. Honour measures the expected integrity of the arguments exchanged. We understand the rhetorical moves in a dialogue as actions to project the current relationships into the future.

Advances in infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems

“…In this sense, the relationships built over time among entities and/or their principals may also provide guarantees of behavior (Sierra and Debenham 2006). Without specific support for security, some sensitive information can be leaked, and the security of the system can be compromised (Jung et al 2012).…”

DipGame: A challenging negotiation testbed

“…When every player has decided their movements, those are made public at the same time and the game state is updated following the rules of the game. 1 The rules describe how to resolve conflicts that may emerge because of the concurrent announcement of movements. At the end of the year if you have a unit over a supply centre province, the supply centre becomes yours.…”

“…Current research trends in multiagent systems (MAS) include models of trust [1], reputation [2,3], and argumentation [4,5] to improve negotiating strategies [6,7,8]. Research progress in the development of these theoretical models has made them very sophisticated (based on cognitive, information or game theoretical grounds) and has enabled software agents to interact with and help humans in a more efficient and believable way.…”

Mediation = Information Revelation + Analogical Reasoning

“…Negotiation agent α negotiates with agent β by sending illocutions which represent offers and counter offers. The illocutions are represented in a communication language C. An example of such language, where the kernel set of negotiation illocutions is extended with illocutions that enable persuasive negotiation and argumentation, is presented in [6] and [7]. Negotiation agent α also uses an internal language L for it's reasoning.…”