Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction in an Ambient-Intelligence Context
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A multiagent system uses argumentation-based interaction to address service provisioning in an ambient intelligence context. Multiple intelligent agents on the user's mobile computing device address the ambient-intelligence issue and cooperate with a family of dedicated personal-assistance agents on the server side. Each of the latter agents is an expert on a different impairment, so their viewpoints may conflict. Together, they participate in an argumentation-based distributed decision making process to provide the best consistent solution for users having a combination of impairments. This article is part of a special issue on argumentation technology.
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Index Terms:
multiagent systems, intelligent agents, argumentation, ambient intelligence, agent dialogues, distributed decision making
Citation:
Pavlos Moraitis, Nikolaos Spanoudakis, "Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction in an Ambient-Intelligence Context," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 84-93, Nov./Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIS.2007.101
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