1 University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Agent Argumentation under Time Pressure

Automated argumentation is believed to be a more powerful approach to interaction between agents than game-theoretic and heuristic-based approaches. However, during argumentation agents spend a lot of time to ensure their arguments are safe. The paper attempts to find the reasons that slow down the argument generation process by considering a simple multi agent game – Diplomacy. The research is mainly concerned with high level knowledge base organization methodologies.