Many types of inter-agent dialogue, including information seeking, negotiation and deliberation can be fruitfully seen as varieties of argumentation. Argumentation frameworks, ori...
Reasoning in legal and social domains appears not to be well dealt with by deductive approaches. This is because such reasoning is open-endedly defeasible, and because the various ...
CAT0 is an instructions environment for practicing basic skills of legal research: to use cases in arguments about a problem situation and to test a theory about a legal domain. U...
This paper presents a formalism to describe practical reasoning in terms of an Action-based Alternating Transition System (AATS). The starting point is a previously specified acc...
In virtual training scenarios, agent technology can be used to build a virtual tutor that assists a student during training. In a dialogue using argumentation schemes, the virtual ...
Thomas L. van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules ...