Using argumentation for cooperative decision making process

Decision making process is an important topic in cooperative design work, but it also can be a complex and long-running task, especially when many aspects must be decided, several parties are involved and there are conflicting points of view. One form of dealing with this complexity is automating all or part of the process. With the aim of giving a partial support, we propose a based-argumentation model for the decision making process. In our model, intelligent agents act on behalf of the human participants and after a decision making process a suggested decision is given. We also propose an agent architecture in which the knowledge is divided into data and beliefs, depending on a credibility value of the information. Finally, we give an example of the performance of our model in a scenario of software architecture design.