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Revisiting the Delphi Method for Agents

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Abstract

Research on agent interaction has attracted the attention of agent researchers for a long time. This paper revisits an old work to find uses of an argumentation protocol which borrows from social sciences to raise agreements among several agents. In this protocol, several agents discuss and provide a conclusion after some rounds of mutual information exchange. The work is reusing INGENIAS methodology to model and deploy the examples and illustrate benefits of this protocol proposal. It also analyses the requirements of this protocol for its application.

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Metadaten
Titel
Revisiting the Delphi Method for Agents
verfasst von
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz
Ruben Fuentes Fernandez
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_32