@conference {1510812,
	title = {Towards flexible negotiation in teamwork },
	booktitle = {Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents)},
	year = {1999},
	abstract = {In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions
are often jeopardized by agents{\textquoteright} conflicting beliefs about different
aspects of their environment, about resource availability, and
about their own or teammates{\textquoteright} capabilities and performance. Team
members thus need to communicate and negotiate to restore team
coherence. This paper focuses on the problem of negotiations in
teamwork to resolve such conflicts. The basis of such negotiations
is inter-agent argumentation based on Toulmin{\textquoteright}s argumentation
pattern. There are several novel aspects in our approach. First, our
approach to argumentation exploits recently developed general,
explicit teamwork models, which make it possible to provide a
generalized and reusable argumentation facility based on
teamwork constraints. Second, an emphasis on collaboration in
argumentation leads to novel argumentation strategies geared
towards benefiting the team rather than the individual. Third, our
goal, to realize argumentation in practice in an agent team, has led
to decision theoretic and pruning techniques to reduce
argumentation overhead. Our approach is implemented in a
system called CONSA.},
	author = {Z. Qiu and M. Tambe and H. Jung}
}
