Friday 23 July 2010

74, Argumentative Alternating Offers

Good paper ('Argumentative Alternating Offers', Nabila Hadidi, Yannis Dimopolous, Pavlos Moraitis, 2010). Understandable. Always a good positive feeling understanding a paper!

Paper is about introducing argumentation to the "alternating offers (negotiation) protocol" and separating (making a distinction) between "practical" and "epistemic" arguments. Worth nothing that the work is for the 2-agent setting and arguments are treated as abstract entities.

A few questions to ask of the author(s):
  • Are (would) the conflict relations (Re and Rp) (be) shared by both agents? (see page 442)
  • Are (would) the preference relations (>=p and >=e) (be) shared by both agents? (see page 442)
  • Why is the assumption on page 443 that all practical arguments are 'useful' for some offer necessary?
  • The 'reject' case on page 445 (and explained on page 447): Why is it so? What does it mean for arguments and offers to be removed from the agent's theory?
  • Are offers ever added to the agents known offers (i.e. is it dynamic or static)?

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