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Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations

Maxime Morge, Sameh Abdel-Naby, and Bruno Beaufils. Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations. In The Seventh Proceedings of the seventh International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS'2010), pp. 127–144, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010.

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Abstract

The use of virtual agents to intelligently interface with online customers of e-commerce businesses is remarkably increasing. Most of these virtual agents are designed to assist online customers while searching for information related to a specific product or service, while few agents are intended for promoting and selling a product or a service. Within the later type, our aim is to provide proactive agents that recommend a specific item and justify this recommendation to a customer based on his purchases history and his needs. In this paper, we propose a dialectical argumentation approach that would allow virtual agents that have sales goals to trigger persuasions with e-commerce's customers. Then, we illustrate the proposed idea through its integration with an example from real-life.

BibTeX

@InProceedings{morge10argmas2010,
  author =       {Maxime Morge and Sameh Abdel-Naby and Bruno Beaufils},
  title =        {Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations},
  booktitle =    {The Seventh  Proceedings of the seventh  International
                  Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS'2010)},
  conference =   {ArgMAS'2010 in conjunction with AAMAS 2010 -- Toronto (Canada) -- May 10, 2010},
  pages =        {127-144},
  year =         {2010},
  editor =       {Peter McBurney, Iyad Rahwan and Simon Parsons},
  publisher =    {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
  abstract=      {The use of virtual agents to intelligently interface with
                  online customers of e-commerce businesses is remarkably
                  increasing. Most of these virtual agents are designed to
                  assist online customers while searching for information
                  related to a specific product or service, while few
                  agents are intended for promoting and selling a product
                  or a service.  Within the later type, our aim is to
                  provide proactive agents that recommend a specific item
                  and justify this recommendation to a customer based on
                  his purchases history and his needs. In this paper, we
                  propose a dialectical argumentation approach that would
                  allow virtual agents that have sales goals to trigger
                  persuasions with e-commerce's customers.  Then, we
                  illustrate the proposed idea through its integration with
                  an example from real-life.},
  bib2html_pubtype = {Workshop},
  bib2html_rescat = {Argumentation, Embodied Conversational Agent},
  bib2html_funding = {VVU}
}

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