An agent communication protocol for resolving conflicts

This paper proposes an agent communication protocol specifie as a set of dialogue rules for resolving conflict using assumption-based argumentation. Arguments are built from a set of rules and assumptions using backward deduction. Beyond arguments agents can handle, we propose the notion of partial arguments along with partial acceptability. This protocol merges inquiry and persuasion stages and by building and reasoning about partial arguments, agents can jointly fin arguments supporting a new solution for their conflict which is not known by any of them individually.