What Is a Conversation Policy?

Greaves, Mark; Holmback, Heather; Bradshaw, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1007/10722777_8

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“…In agent technology, a conversation policy is an agreed protocol used between two agents to carry out a task [14]. For an agent to carry out such a task, each must have a prerequisite set of abilities.…”

Section: Future Work and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computing Resource and Work Allocations Using Social Profiles

Peter¹,

Eamonn²,

Brian³

2013

csci

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If several distributed and disparate computer resources exist, many of which have been created for different and diverse reasons, and several large scale computing challenges also exist with similar diversity in their backgrounds, then one problem which arises in trying to assemble enough of these resources to address such challenges is the need to align and accommodate the different motivations and objectives which may lie behind the existence of both the resources and the challenges. Software agents are offered as a mainstream technology for modelling the types of collaborations and relationships needed to do this. As an initial step towards forming such relationships, agents need a mechanism to consider social and economic backgrounds. This paper explores addressing social and economic differences using a combination of textual descriptions known as social profiles and search engine technology, both of which are integrated into an agent technology.

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Section: Future Work and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computing Resource and Work Allocations Using Social Profiles

Peter¹,

Eamonn²,

Brian³

2013

csci

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“…In [12], the authors defined the concept of conversation policies as declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. We agree with this notion of conversation policy in general, but as we use the conversation policies on top of the backbone protocol defined in the previous section (which is actually also a conversation policy in this general definition), we will define conversation policies as declarative or procedural specifications that govern the production of arguments and defeats to feed into the backbone protocol with respect to different perspectives of the public argument argumentation and the applications on top of it.…”

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A Dialogue Mechanism for Public Argumentation Using Conversation Policies

Tang

Parsons

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In this paper, we propose a flexible dialogue mechanism through which a set of agents can establish a coherent set of public beliefs. Flexibility and coherence are achieved by decomposing the dialogue mechanism into two parts, a backbone protocol and a set of conversation policies. The backbone protocol maintains the set of arguments put forward by the agents, and each agent uses a preagreed argumentation theory to extract the set of public beliefs from the context. The flexibility is achieved by distributing the other functions of the dialogue mechanism among a set of conversation policies, some of which are public and some of which are private to each agent.

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“…On the one hand, conversation policies [17] and dialogue games [11,19] aim at offering more flexible protocols [18]. This is achieved by combining different policies and games to construct complete and more complex protocols.…”

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A Computational Model for Conversation Policies for Agent Communication

Moulin

Meyer

Chaib-draa

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexible, this protocol is defined as a combination of a set of conversation policies. These policies are formalized as a set of dialogue games. The protocol is specified using two types of dialogue games: entry dialogue game and chaining dialogue games. The protocol terminates when exit conditions are satisfied. Using a tableau method, we prove that this protocol always terminates. The paper addresses also the implementation issues of our protocol using logical programming and an agentoriented platform.

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What Is a Conversation Policy?

Cited by 80 publications

References 5 publications

Computing Resource and Work Allocations Using Social Profiles

Computing Resource and Work Allocations Using Social Profiles

A Dialogue Mechanism for Public Argumentation Using Conversation Policies

A Computational Model for Conversation Policies for Agent Communication

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