In the last decades, most works in the literature have been devoted to study argumentation
formalisms that focus on a defeat relation among arguments. Recently, the study of a support …

People are interacting with online systems all the time. In order to use the services being
provided, they give consent for their data to be collected. This approach requires too much …

Negotiation is essential in settings where autonomous agents have conflicting interests and
a desire to cooperate. For this reason, mechanisms in which agents exchange potential …

One of the most widely studied systems of argumentation is the one described by Dung in a
paper from 1995. Unfortunately, this framework does not allow for joint attacks on …

This paper studies argumentation-based dialogues between agents. It defines a set of
locutions by which agents can trade arguments, a set of agent attitudes which relate what …

This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment
corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of …

The concept of explanation has received attention from different areas in Computer Science,
particularly in the knowledge-based systems and expert systems communities. At the same …

Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems.
Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to …

In this paper we propose an application-independent model for the definition of artificial
institutions that can be used to define open multi-agent systems. Such a model of …

This work introduces the Attack–Support Argumentation Framework (ASAF), an approach to
abstract argumentation that allows for the representation and combination of attack and …