Testing the benefits of structured argumentation in multi-agent deliberation dialogues (extended abstract)

To improve communication and shared decision making in multi-agent systems it is often proposed to allow for argumentation in inter-agent dialogues. Throughout the years many frameworks and protocols have been developed and the theoretical reachability of ideal and intuitive outcomes has often been proved formally. However, since not all properties can be studied formally at least three works have experimentally explored the benefits of argumentation in dialogues. (Karunatillake et al. 2009, Pasquier et al. 2010 and Black and Bentley 2011) On the other hand, none of these studies have captured the expressivity of formal models of argument based inference. They particularly lack a language in which arguments with internal structure can be used to cover realistic argumentation dialogues.