The paper presents a multi-agent system that comprises a society of self-interested agents that use argumentation-based negotiation to reach agreements regarding cooperation and go...
ed from context by seeing an explanation inferentially, much in the same way that early expert systems saw an explanation as chaining of inferences. This approach omitted, for the ...
Design rationale remains poorly explained and rarely modelled on projects in industry. However, the reasons for design decisions are important when a specification has to be re-ex...
An approach is suggested for arguing that a system is dependable. The key idea is to structure the system so that critical requirements are localized in small, reliable subsets of ...
AbstractAbstractAbstract Decision task and its features are defined in order to distinguish motions, decision purposes, decision problems, alternatives, etc. Indicators of decision...