On the Use of Target Sets for Move Selection in Multi-Agent Debates

Short paper.International audienceIn debates, agents are faced with the problem of deciding how to best contribute to the current state of the debate in order to satisfy their own goals. Target sets specify minimal changes on the current state of the debate that are required to achieve such goals, where changes are the addition and/or deletion of attacks among arguments. However, agents may not have the ability to implement all the actions prescribed by a target set, nor to rely on others to help them to do so. In this short paper we provide evidence that this notion is still a useful criterion for move selection