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The Information Exchange
(this project has ended)

The project tackles the problem of information overload in a novel way -- by shifting the burden away from the information seeker and onto the information provider. Rather than obliging an information seeker to trawl through sources of information the emphasis is instead squarely upon the information provider to persuade clients that the information they have on offer is of value.

The solution relies upon the representation of uses interests in a multi-agent system, upon the societal roles employed, and upon argumentation theoretic commitment-based interaction between the agents in that system. In particular, the project has the following aims:

  1. To develop a coherent model of commitment, dialogue and social context for multi-agent systems;
  2. To build a test bed for the evaluation of this model; and
  3. To evaluate the model within the domain of distributed information management.

Homepage: http://www.i-exchange.org/
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Theme: Agent Based Computing
Dates: 1st October 2002 to 1st October 2005

Partners

  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of Dundee

Funding

  • EPSRC

Principal Investigators

Other Investigators

  • Dr. Tim Norman - University of Aberdeen
  • Dionysis Kalofonos - University of Aberdeen
  • Dr. Chris Reed - University of Dundee
  • Simon Wells - University of Dundee
URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/271
RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/271

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Associated Publications

Number of items: 6.

Kalofonos, D., Karunatillake, N., Jennings, N. R., Norman, T. J., Reed, C. and Wells, S. (2006) Building agents that plan and argue in a social context. In: 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Liverpool, U.K.. pp. 15-26.

Karunatillake, N. C., Jennings, N. R., Rahwan, I. and Ramchurn, S. D. (2006) Managing Social Influences through Argumentation-Based Negotiation. In: Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006), 8th May 2006, Hakodate, Japan. pp. 35-52.

Karunatillake, N. C. (2006) Argumentation–Based Negotiation in a Social Context. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Karunatillake, N. C., Jennings, N. R., Rahwan, I. and Norman, T. J. (2005) Arguing and negotiating in the presence of social influences. In: 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS’05), Budapest, Hungary. pp. 223-235.

Karunatillake, N. C., Jennings, N. R., Rahwan, I. and Norman, T. J. (2005) Argument-based negotiation within a social context. In: 2nd International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. pp. 74-88.

Karunatillake, N. C. and Jennings, N. R. (2004) Is it worth arguing? In: First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004), 19, July 2004, Columbia University, NY, USA. pp. 62-77.

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Publications included from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/projects/271.include.