How Agents Alter Their Beliefs After an Argumentation-Based Dialogue

In our previous work on dialogue games for agent interaction, an agent’s set of beliefs (Σ) and an agent’s “commitment store” (CS) — the set of locutions uttered by the agent — play a crucial role. The usual assumption made in this work is that the set of beliefs is static through the course of a dialogue, while the commitment store is dynamic. While the assumption of static beliefs is reasonable during the progress of the dialogue, it seems clear that some form of belief change is appropriate once a dialogue is complete. What form this change should take is our subject in this paper.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ARGMAS
• Authors: Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar
• Keywords: Agent Interaction, ARGMAS 2005, Commitment Store, Dialogue Games