The ability to build arguments that express thoughts is crucial for intelligent interactions
among human beings. Thus, argumentation techniques have been applied for years in …

Dealing with controversial information is an important issue in several application contexts.
Formal argumentation enables reasoning on arguments for and against a claim to decide on …

This paper clarifies the relation between case-based prediction and analogical transfer.
Case-based prediction consists in predicting the outcome associated with a new case …

In line with the progress of artificial intelligence, electronic negotiation theory has developed
a great variety of promising negotiation models. These models have been evaluated in …

Dialogue state tracking (DST) is to identify user goals from dialogue context and it is an
essential component in task-oriented dialogue systems. In multi-domain task-oriented …

Replying to several research calls, I report promising results from an initial experiment which
compares different negotiation support system approaches concerning their potential to …

Abstract Argumentation is a powerful technique to harmonise conflicts in open multi-agent
systems. However, the social context of agents determines in many situations the way in …

Finding optimal strategies for negotiation with incomplete information is a challenging issue
in agent-based automated negotiation research. Although there are some previous works on …

This book systematically presents the author's research on the Meta-Synthetic Methodology
and its application in the design and development of an Integrated Platform for …

In this paper, we deal with the problem of real-time coordination with the more general
approach of reaching real-time agreements in MAS. Concretely, this work proposes a real …