Shift from Forward to Backward Deliberation in Search of Reconciliation

Desire conflicts arise in several real-world contexts. In this paper we propose a mixed deliberation dialogue for reconciliation. A mixed deliberation dialogue is defined as a combination of forward and backward deliberation dialogues whose goals are subordinate and superordinate desires of a given desire, respectively. This research and the introduction of mixed deliberation dialogue have been motivated by Kowalski and Toni’s reconciliatory scenario: indeed we show that an instantiation of a mixed deliberation dialogue implements key parts of Kowalski and Toni’s reconciliatory solution. We also proved the correctness of the mixed deliberation dialogues.