@incollection{argmas2011-towards, title = {Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations}, author = {Morge, Maxime and Abdel-Naby, Sameh and Beaufils, Bruno}, booktitle = {Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems}, editor = {McBurney, Peter and Rahwan, Iyad and Parsons, Simon}, pages = {141-158}, year = {2011}, volume = {6614}, series = {Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence}, publisher = {Springer}, isbn = {978-3-642-21939-9}, issn = {0302-9743}, url = {http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-21939-9}, note = {Revised Selected and Invited Papers of ARGMAS@AAMAS 2010}, 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.}, hal-id = {hal-00826418}, x-genre = {workshopInternational}, x-language = {EN}, x-international-audience = {Yes}, x-timestamp = {2013-05-27}, x-missing = {pdf} }