The Agent Argumentation Architecture Revisited⋆

The Agent Argumentation Architecture (AAA) has been recently proposed [1] as an abstract model by means of which an autonomous agent argues with itself to manage its motivations and arbitrate its possibly conflicting internal goals. In an attempt to show how the AAA model can be instantiated, we revisit the original model with a concrete argumentation framework illustrating how the internal dialectic process can be specified as a dialogue-game between internal components representing the agent’s mental faculties. The resulting framework is exemplified with an intuitive case, illustrating the importance of argumentation to develop models of cognitive agents with motivations.