Designing And Implementing B2B Applications Using Argumentative Agents

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

New Trends In Software Methodologies, Tools And Techniques

Publication Date

12-1-2017

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for modeling and deploying Business-to-Business (B2B) applications, with autonomous agents exposing the individual components that implement these applications. This framework consists of three levels identified by strategic, application, and resource, with focus here on the first two levels. The strategic level is about the common vision that independent businesses define as part of their decision of partnership. The application level is about the business processes that get virtually integrated as result of this common vision. Since conflicts are bound to arise among the independent applications/agents, the framework uses a formal model based upon computational argumentation theory through a persuasion protocol to detect and resolve these conflicts. In this protocol, agents call reason about partial information using partial arguments, partial attack and partial acceptability. Agents can then jointly find arguments supporting a new solution for their conflict, which is not known by any of them individually. Termination. soundness, and completeness properties of this protocol are presented. Distributed and centralized coordination strategies are also supported in this framework, which is illustrated with a simple online purchasing cage study.

ISBN

978-1-58603-916-5

ISSN

0922-6389

Publisher

Ios Press

Volume

182

First Page

165

Last Page

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Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

B2B, argumentation theory, agent communication, conflict, persuasion

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no

Open Access

no

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