COST Action IC0801Start Date: 2009-10-28
End Date: 2009-11-29
Host Institution: The British University in Dubai
Host Country: Dubai, UAE
Home Institution: University of Edinburgh
Home Country: Edinburgh, UK
Description:
The proposed research aims to tackle the following question: How can a group of agents come up with a plan to achieve a common objective, if knowledge about the world is inconsistent among the agents?
In this project, we propose to develop argumentation-based techniques for automating conflict resolution over plans.
The work can be broken down to the following tasks:
(Task 1) Preparatory work: This task will focus on building a formal model for argumentation-based dialogue protocols over plans, together with a domain representation language.
(Task 2) Analytical study of argumentation model: This task will produce the main analytical results about the properties of the dialogue protocols, and their relationship to domain characteristics.
(Task 3) Implementation of argumentation model: This task will involve programming and testing the framework.
