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title: "Information-Based Agency"
authors:
  - "Carles Sierra"
  - "John K. Debenham"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/244"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0244.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2007
pages: "1513-1517"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Information-Based Agency

Carles Sierra, John K. Debenham

*Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1513-1517.

## Abstract

Successful negotiators look beyond a purely utilitarian view. We propose a new agent architecture that integrates the utilitarian, information, and semantic views allowing the definition of strategies that take these three dimensions into account. Information-based agency values the information in dialogues in the context of a communication language based on a structured ontology and on the notion of commitment. This abstraction unifies measures such as trust, reputation, and reliability in a single framework.