Objective An important form of negotiation is argumentation. This is the ability to argue and to persuade the other party to accept a desired agreement, to acquire or give information, to coordinate goals and actions, and to find and verify evidence. This is a key capability in negotiating with humans.While automated negotiations between software agents can often exchange offers and counteroffers, humans require persuasion. This challenges the design of agents arguing with people, with the objective that the outcome of the negotiation will meet the preferences of the arguer agent.CAP’s objective is to enable automated agents to argue and persuade humans.To achieve this, we intend to develop the following key components:1) The extension of current game theory models of persuasion and bargaining to more realistic settings, 2) Algorithms and heuristics for generation and evaluation of arguments during negotiation with people, 3) Algorithms and heuristics for managing inconsistent views of the negotiation environment, and decision procedures for revelation, signalling, and requesting information, 4) The revision and update of the agent’s mental state and incorporation of social context, 5) Identifying strategies for expressing emotions in negotiations, 6) Technology for general opponent modelling from sparse and noisy data.To demonstrate the developed methods, we will implement two training systems for people to improve their interviewing capabilities, and for training negotiators in inter-culture negotiations.CAP will revolutionise the state of the art of automated systems negotiating with people. It will also create breakthroughs in the research of multi-agent systems in general, and will change paradigms by providing new directions for the way computers interact with people. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsgame theorynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceheuristic programming Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-PE6 - ERC Advanced Grant - Computer science and informatics Call for proposal ERC-2010-AdG_20100224 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Coordinator BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Address Bar ilan university campus 52900 Ramat gan Israel See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Estelle Waise (Ms.) Principal investigator Sarit Kraus (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Israel EU contribution € 2 334 057,00 Address Bar ilan university campus 52900 Ramat gan See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Estelle Waise (Ms.) Principal investigator Sarit Kraus (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
